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The KVJ Show

KVJ Cuts- Old Phrases We Still Use (REPLAY)

The KVJ Show

97.9 WRMF | Hubbard Radio

Comedy

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 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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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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