KVJ Cuts- Old Phrases We Still Use (REPLAY)
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth, What Old Phrases Do We Still Use
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| 0:00.0 | KVJJ cuts. |
| 0:02.0 | Well, a lot of times when we're playing Do It Bitch, |
| 0:04.0 | you hear people saying, |
| 0:05.0 | and that boy got to sing for his supper. |
| 0:07.0 | Where does that come from exactly? |
| 0:09.0 | That term goes all the way back to 1609. |
| 0:12.8 | I've been saying it since I was a kid. |
| 0:14.8 | I had a baseball... |
| 0:16.3 | You love singing and you love supper. |
| 0:18.1 | Well, it just you got a... |
| 0:19.7 | You got to put up or shut up. |
| 0:21.2 | You got to sing for your supper to make your earning. |
| 0:23.4 | That all started with the traveling minstrels who would perform in taverns and they would get |
| 0:28.5 | paid with a meal. |
| 0:29.9 | So they would literally be singing and entertaining for their supper and it became |
| 0:34.0 | popularized in a nursery rhyme called Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper from |
| 0:39.5 | 1744 they love to rhyme names back then. Yeah. Before we're even a country. That was a term, |
| 0:47.2 | sing for your supper. Dressed to the Nides. You heard of that one? Yeah. You know what? You know where it comes from? |
| 0:54.0 | Nope. |
| 0:55.0 | It refers to the fabric that you would get nine yards to make a tailor fit outfit including the |
| 1:01.6 | vest and jacket. |
| 1:02.9 | So when you're dressed to the nine's, |
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