Expressions you know, that you never knew the story behind ...

Wikipedia: In the 14th century it was discovered that, when humans suffered constipation, it was thought that blood flow in the bowel was severely restricted and was the cause of the overall effect of low blood pressure which was often associated with the condition. This, they felt at the time, explained the light-headedness that people often complained of while trying to force a bowel movement in an effort to expel the contents of their colon.

Similarly, 'idiotic thinking' was also associated with diminished circulation, only in this case, cerebral circulation. Medical hypothesises soon began to link the two and in 1385 (when patients were presented at asylums in severe states of confusion and speaking gibberishly and nonsensically; poor bowel circulation was suspected. Patients were then given laxatives told to: "Go and have a bowel movement." This went on to be said to be people near and far as an insult whenever they were thought to be not of clear thinking and throughout time. Indeed, this is also the origins of: "You're talking out your bottom".

Many years later in Dundalk, Ireland: Andrea Corr was attending her local library and read this is an old book and it dawned on her that this must be why Dublin peasants use similar variations of this saying . The following year she suggested to Alan Parker (the director of her first picture) that she be allowed to use this Dublin parlance when conversing with Colm Meaney (in his role as her father in the picture) who, as required by the script, was speaking to her in a suitably nonsensically fashion. Infamously he agreed and so: "Go and shiite" was uttered for the first time on the silver screen. Even today, it is still as popular as then and if you are ever to walk the winding streets of the Emerald Isle's fair city (where Oscar Wilde himself used to tread) you too may hear the words: "Go and shite" echoing throughout the slums of Dublin City, Ireland.

Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (March 12, 1832 – June 19, 1897) was a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland as part of a campaign for agrarian tenants' rights in 1880 gave the English language the verb to boycott, meaning "to ostracise".

In 1880, as part of its campaign for the "Three Fs" (fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale), the Irish Land League under Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt withdrew the local labour required to save the harvest on Lord Erne's estate. When Boycott tried to undermine the campaign, the League launched a campaign of isolation against him in the local community. Neighbours would not talk to him. Shops would not serve him. Local labourers refused to tend his house, and the postman refused to deliver his mail.

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real origins of F.uck - in India during the British empire, soldiers were forbidden from consorting sexually with the "natives". If caught, they were brought up for court martial, and they were charged with the offence of "Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", so, the reason they were before the court was "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", handily abbreviated in Military notes as "on a charge of F.U.C.K", or, because he "f.ucked her". Thats the real origin. Yup.