Welcome, friends, to my new blog, “Why Do We Say That?”
This blog is years in the making. My dad and I have always loved quotes and sayings, and we’ve been collecting a list of odd things people say for years. Sayings like, “Running around like a chicken without its head,” is pretty self-explanatory, but what about, “It’s raining cats and dogs?” "and “Three sheets to the wind?” and “No skin off my nose?'“ (Ew.)
So why tonight for the debut blog after so long? Well, it was inspired by two things:
1) It’s my dad’s birthday, so what better day to launch an idea we had together?
2) A friend of mine is sick and remarked, “I’m sicker than a dog.”
3) A splash of insomnia and voila! The blog is here.
SAYING: SICKER THAN A DOG
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: “I haven’t gotten up all day, I’m sick as dog.”
WHY WE SAY IT: Because of the Bible! Check out Proverbs 26 : 11: “As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.” And again the dog is sick in 2 Peter 2: “The dog is turned to his own vomit again.” *
Welp, there you have it. And having owned two dogs of my own, I can defintely verify, especially after eating raw grass, a hidden bag of chocolate, or inhaling their dog food too quickly, there can be quite a bit of vomit.
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*Source: The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers