been saying these phrases without a hill a’ beans as to what in the world they mean. But we’ll say them until the cows come home! How many clichés can I put in one paragraph?! For example, to bite the bullet, meaning to knuckle down and do something you really don’t want to do, was a phrase derived in surgical procedures before the use of anesthetic. Surgeons would operate on wounded soldiers giving them a bullet to bite on in order to distract from the pain. Cat got your tongue? This is used when someone is silent on a matter. But do you know where its disgusting origin came from? It stems
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