We start with Paint the Town Red. This website catalogs the earliest uses of this phrase.
This website talks through some of the stories associated with this phrase, the possible origins that could have given it to us.
Just for fun, here’s information about Henry Beresford, who is the key player in the theory Karen personally likes best.
This is the wiki about the phrase Crocodile Tears. It has two political cartoons from a hundred years apart that both feature this idiom.
But do crocodiles really cry? Well, the answer is “sort of.” This article will explain what real crocodile tears are.
Run Amok is a hard phrase, actually, as it comes with a solid history from a culture that is far removed from our own. For a while, it was classified as a “culture bound syndrome” that was something people suffered from, but that’s not really what is going on. In this paper, it reviews what exactly these syndromes are.
This paper from the National Library of Medicine talks about how Run Amok is not something necessarily bound by just that one culture and can be seen in our modern society too.
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