Origin: an act of the English Parliament (Great Britain) that was meant to give local councils the power to deal with a group of more than 12 people who have assembled unlawfully . A requirement of the Act was that the police had to read the Act to the unlawful assembly to declare their gathering illegal.

Thirty Pieces of Silver/Betrayed with a Kiss

Origin: A French poet, Alfred de Vigny , was said to have shut himself in an ivory so that he could composed his poems. Furthermore “ ” are mentions in various 18th-century fairy tales. The term refers to a beautiful, unreachable place . It has come to have negative connotations of being out of touch with reality.

Thirty Pieces of Silver/Betrayed with a kiss

Origin: goes back to story of Alexander the Great. In 333 BC, the Macedonian conqueror marched to the capital Phrygia Godium (now is the modern day Turkey), and as the army arrived Alexander encountered an wagon, its yoke tied with what one Roman historian later described as “several knots all so tightly entangled that is was impossible to see how they were fastened.” It was said that who ever could untie the Gordian know was destined to rule Asia, so Alexander unsuccessfully failing to untie the knot, he thought how there was no certain way to untie the knot, so he got is sword and slashed the ropes loose.

Thirty Pieces of Silver/Betrayed with a Kiss

Origin: Judas was one of Jesus’s disciples who was known for his desire for money. Thirty pieces of silver was the amount of money that Judas received from the chief priests for betray Jesus . Betrayed with a kiss refers to the kiss of Judas which was how he identified Jesus to the authorities as he said that he person he kisses is Jesus.

Thirty Pieces of Silver/Betrayed with a Kiss

Icarus/Fly too Close to the Sun

Origin: This is a proverb derived from a Latin translation of Aristotle. The proverb reads, “Do not hold as gold all that shines is gold.” In other words, just because something looks like gold, one should not assume that it actually is gold.

Icarus/Fly too Close to the Sun

Origin: The left hand is usually seen as something negative. Definitions in the dictionary quote that being “left handed” involve awkward, clumsy, or of doubtful sincerity . This use, in turn, derived from the left long associate with wrongness or evil.

Icarus/Fly Too Close to the Sun

Origin: Icarus and his father Daedalus escaped form the island of Crete using wings constructed by Daedalus. The wings were held together by wax. Icarus was warned by his father not to fly too close to the sun but he did not listen . He flew too close and the wax melted , Icarus fell to his death in the Aegean Sea.

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