Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: Phrase Craze! Page 30 * To add insult to injury: This phrase means to add scorn to an injury someone has already sustained. Reportedly this phrase first appeared in Latin: iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam, which means "injury added to insult." In the first century A. D. in the fifth book of Roman fables the expression first appeared. * To stick to one's guns: to remain despite obstacles, persevere. Samuel Warren wrote this phrase for the first time in literature in 1839. The novel was Ten Thousand A Year. Its origin stems from the military. * Hocus-Pocus: to be deceived or flim-flammed. The phrase was first in print in 1656 when Thomas Ady used it in "A Candle In the Dark." Though the spelling was quite different then. It was hokos pokos, not hocus * Making one's hair stand on end: to ca ...
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