phrases, sayings and idioms at

People like to tell us that they know some phrase origin that we don't have listed. We get mail; we get phone calls; we get posts on the Discussion Forum. Some of it is informative and useful. Some of it is tosh, twaddle, claptrap - nonsense, and the reason we haven't listed their cherished 'a man in a pub told me' story is because it isn't true. It's always the same old tales -, plausible, but false.