Comments by "king james488" (@kingjames4886) on "The Curious Origins of Popular Sayings" video.

  1. what about "no room to swing a cat"?
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  2. pretty sure they still used paper cartridges in the american civil war and the phrase actually comes from when they'd bite the end off of the cartridge to load it... but I might be wrong.
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  3. the coffin bells were also supposedly called "dead ringers" and were the origin of that term.
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