This is a web site dedicated to relating the interesting origins of some of our most colorful words and phrases. We hope that people all over the world will contribute to make this one of the most comprehensive databases of interesting etymology of common words and phrases.

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Navigation Home Dictionary Message Boards Our Goal   Currently, there are 92 expressions in our dictionary   WORDS OF THE WEEK Pandora's Box Word   Do you know the origin of this word? Help us out by answering it! Agnostic   We will be adding more features periodically. For now, we need your help! If you know of any interesting word origins, or would like to request research of any that is not listed on our site, please post your messages on our message board in the appropriate section. If you think that one of our etymologies is incorrect, please let us know. Thank you for your help and support. Without your help, this would just be a blank page.