During our discussion about what an idiom is, Karen pulled some information from a Youtube channel called Z&Z TV. We encourage you to go watch their videos if you’re interested in this topic. They’re great!
Karen also encourages you to go check out their store online if you’re interested in spices!
Karen started out giving an example that we’re all familiar with, and that’s G.O.A.T which is actually older than I knew it was! Here’s where she got that info from.
If, like me, you’re interested in idioms outside of English, this is a great link with some examples and what they mean.
Did the phrase “blow smoke up your ass” come from tobacco enemas? Snopes says that because it wasn’t in common use until the mid-20th century, that probably not.
This one isn’t going to tell you anything different than Snopes, but it does provide a video of what an idiom is and it talks about the related idiom “Blow Smoke” and how that might be related to this one. Plus, at the bottom, there are a ton more idioms linked if you’re interested.
If you’re just interested in the practice of tobacco enemas in general, this is an article from a medical journal about the practice with pictures of the apparatus.
This is a scientific article about the practice of smoking amongst Native Americans in the New Mexico region, and it talks about smoke enemas.
This is a portrait of Oliver Cromwell, who is involved in the Warts and All phrase. Click on this picture to go to the Wiki page about him if you want to learn more about this man.
As for the saying itself, here is a website that will let you in on where people think the phrase came from.
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