Origin of Phrases

Written on 28 May 2013. Posted in Origin of Phrases - Y.

You Can Lead A Horse To Water, But You Can't Make Him Drink

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You Can Lead A Horse To Water, But You Can't Make Him Drink

John Heywood recorded the saying as a proverb in 1546. "A man may well bryng a horse to the water, But he can not make him drynk without he will."

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Written on 28 May 2013. Posted in Origin of Phrases - Y.

You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too

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You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too

The original version was "you cannot eat your cake and have it too." John Heywood's Proverbs had that version back in 1584, which means that if it was published then, it was around for even longer than that. Incidentally, Heywood published it as "Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?"

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Your Guess Is As Good As Mine

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Your Guess Is As Good As Mine

This one is fairly new, having been first seen in print only 50 years ago, in Irene Baird's 1939 novel, Waste Heritage.

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