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Idio?
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Root of clergy?
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(This isn't really about using your brains. It's about who can wikipedia/google faster. It's not like people know the roots of all these words anyway.)
Shhh! Don't give the secret away! We want to seem smart remember?
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from Latin
fallere
to disappoint, deceive.
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Sun.
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According to the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins," the phrase is based on U.S. Weather Service terminology. This theory holds that cloud types are numbered, and that "cloud nine" is the designation given to "cumulonimbus" clouds, the highest-flying clouds around, making them an apt metaphor for being "on top of the world." So basically you're happy!
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"Holy Scott!" or "Sweet Scott!" (Isn't that a phrase?)
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I don't know about Holy/Sweet Scott, but the expression 'Great Scott!'
That's the one, not Sweet/Holy. My bad. I'll let someone else take your question, I don't know it.
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Murphys law:
"It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.
One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it.
... said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it"
The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law."
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edit: to be clear, the ideas of murphys law have been around for a very long time, but this incedent is why it is associated with the name Murphy.
learning from Randomness, +1 for the OP
The origin of "Mind you P's and Q's"
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Arachnid. Is that what you are looking for?
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Origin of "super."
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