Weird Words » body http://www.weirdwords.com your source for weird words or phrase origins Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:38:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Private Eye http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/07/private-eye/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=private-eye http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/07/private-eye/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:59:58 +0000 dave http://www.weirdwords.com/?p=187 The Pinkerton Detective Agency came up with a creative logo for the company.

It was a picture of an eye with the logo ‘We Never Sleep’ underneath it. It was from this logo that the term, ‘private eye’ came to mean private investigators.

]]> http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/07/private-eye/feed/ 0 Feel it in my Bones http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/04/feel-it-in-my-bones/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feel-it-in-my-bones http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/04/feel-it-in-my-bones/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:40:53 +0000 admin http://www.weirdwords.com/?p=113 Shakespeare Timon of Athens. ‘I feel’t upon my bones.’

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