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'Sweating like a pig' actually has nothing to do with farm animals

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Popular idioms in common use date back hundreds of years .

In that time, they've either become outdated, or seen their words adopt new meanings.

In some cases the idioms have been shortened or reversed, losing important context.

You might be surprised to hear that 'sweating like a pig' actually has nothing to do with farm animals.

The proof is in the pudding is in pudding, but what that has to do with pudding is a mystery to most people.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps is commonly used to describe someone who was "self-made" and built themselves up into a success from nothing.

"Push the envelope comes from aeronautics, where it refers to a set of performance limits that may not be safely exceeded," according to Merriam Webster . Now that's more like it!.

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informal

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English

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likely offensive

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not hateful