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🔻Show Your True Colors 🔻
🔹Meaning: Reveal one's real character or intentions, especially when these are disreputable or dishonorable.
☀️ Origin: To confuse their enemies, warships would use multiple flags. However warfare rules dictated that the ships must show its actual flag before firing and hence, the ships would then display its true colors.
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🔻Show Your True Colors 🔻
🔹Meaning: Reveal one's real character or intentions, especially when these are disreputable or dishonorable.
☀️ Origin: To confuse their enemies, warships would use multiple flags. However warfare rules dictated that the ships must show its actual flag before firing and hence, the ships would then display its true colors.
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🔻 Up To Scratch 🔻
🔹Meaning: To be acceptable.
☀️Origin: In the early days of boxing, there was no bell to signal the beginning of a round. Instead, the referee would scratch a line on the ground between fighters, and the round began when both men stepped over it. A contestant who had been knocked down had to demonstrate that he was fit to continue by walking up to the scratch. If the boxer wasn’t able to, he was considered unfit to continue the fight, ‘not up to scratch‘. The fight was awarded to his opponent.
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🔻 Up To Scratch 🔻
🔹Meaning: To be acceptable.
☀️Origin: In the early days of boxing, there was no bell to signal the beginning of a round. Instead, the referee would scratch a line on the ground between fighters, and the round began when both men stepped over it. A contestant who had been knocked down had to demonstrate that he was fit to continue by walking up to the scratch. If the boxer wasn’t able to, he was considered unfit to continue the fight, ‘not up to scratch‘. The fight was awarded to his opponent.
#Idiom_Of_The_Day
#History_Of_Idioms
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy
🔔 HISTORY OF IDIOMS 🔔
🔻Show Your True Colors 🔻
🔹Meaning: Reveal one's real character or intentions, especially when these are disreputable or dishonorable.
☀️ Origin: To confuse their enemies, warships would use multiple flags. However warfare rules dictated that the ships must show its actual flag before firing and hence, the ships would then display its true colors.
#Idiom_Of_The_Day
#History_Of_Idioms
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy
🔻Show Your True Colors 🔻
🔹Meaning: Reveal one's real character or intentions, especially when these are disreputable or dishonorable.
☀️ Origin: To confuse their enemies, warships would use multiple flags. However warfare rules dictated that the ships must show its actual flag before firing and hence, the ships would then display its true colors.
#Idiom_Of_The_Day
#History_Of_Idioms
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy
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🔔 HISTORY OF IDIOMS 🔔
🔻 Up To Scratch 🔻
🔹Meaning: To be acceptable.
☀️Origin: In the early days of boxing, there was no bell to signal the beginning of a round. Instead, the referee would scratch a line on the ground between fighters, and the round began when both men stepped over it. A contestant who had been knocked down had to demonstrate that he was fit to continue by walking up to the scratch. If the boxer wasn’t able to, he was considered unfit to continue the fight, ‘not up to scratch‘. The fight was awarded to his opponent.
#Idiom_Of_The_Day
#History_Of_Idioms
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy
🔻 Up To Scratch 🔻
🔹Meaning: To be acceptable.
☀️Origin: In the early days of boxing, there was no bell to signal the beginning of a round. Instead, the referee would scratch a line on the ground between fighters, and the round began when both men stepped over it. A contestant who had been knocked down had to demonstrate that he was fit to continue by walking up to the scratch. If the boxer wasn’t able to, he was considered unfit to continue the fight, ‘not up to scratch‘. The fight was awarded to his opponent.
#Idiom_Of_The_Day
#History_Of_Idioms
#Teamjimmy
@Sirjimmy
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