A myth about the phrase sleep tight

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  • Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
  • A myth about the origin of the phrase sleep tight

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  • @etsequentia6765
    @etsequentia6765 9 месяцев назад +3

    Nice. Straight and to the point with accompanying visuals. Well done.

  • @billnyethesciencedenier1516
    @billnyethesciencedenier1516 6 месяцев назад +2

    Interesting

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  6 месяцев назад +1

      @@billnyethesciencedenier1516 Thank you

  • @adre5969
    @adre5969 7 месяцев назад +4

    Sleep tight
    Don’t let the bed bugs bite

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  7 месяцев назад +3

      The bed bugs were added a bit later!

    • @stevedallas4942
      @stevedallas4942 6 месяцев назад

      Today it's the shadow people.

    • @adre5969
      @adre5969 6 месяцев назад

      @@stevedallas4942
      Can you explain?

  • @kittycat8222
    @kittycat8222 6 месяцев назад +1

    Ok now go after
    “What in TARnation”
    As in the nation of Tartraria 1400’s world map status.
    Byzentine empire “May Day”, “May pole” (maple), “knight moves” all of it.

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  6 месяцев назад +2

      The word tarnation is derived from 'damnation'. Sometimes it wasn't polite to use a religious word so it was altered slightly. So people said 'What the heck' instead of 'What the Hell'. In England, people said gosh! or golly! instead of 'God'. But 'What the Dickens' has nothing to do with the writer Charles Dickens, instead Dickens was once a nickname for the Devil.

    • @kittycat8222
      @kittycat8222 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@TimLambert101 thank you

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  6 месяцев назад +1

      @@kittycat8222 You're welcome

  • @russellperry9902
    @russellperry9902 7 месяцев назад +2

    I thought tight like loose or pissed or drunk.

  • @waynethompson1461
    @waynethompson1461 6 месяцев назад +1

    I went back in time and found out it meant to tighten the ropes on a bed

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  6 месяцев назад +1

      I went back in time and found out they lied to you

  • @hispeedbullet2661
    @hispeedbullet2661 4 месяца назад

    I don’t know about the origin of the phrase, but rope bedsteads under mattresses (with a tightening mechanism) were used commonly through at least the 1870’s in the American West. Examples can still be seen in the restored Cove Fort in Utah.

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  4 месяца назад

      @@hispeedbullet2661 Yes but that is not the origin of the phrase

  • @erikdeeNOSPELLSNO
    @erikdeeNOSPELLSNO 7 месяцев назад +2

    I always thought it meant have several drinks before bed! JK- thanks for the video!

  • @shelfcloud487
    @shelfcloud487 7 месяцев назад +1

    I thought it was because it rhymed with goodnight and bite.
    Goodnight
    Sleep tight
    Don’t let the bedbugs bite.

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  7 месяцев назад

      Don't let the bed bugs bite was added later as a jokey rhyme

  • @chrismullin8304
    @chrismullin8304 7 месяцев назад +2

    Many people do not know the definition of T.I.P.S., as in giving the taxicab driver additional money along with the fare.
    Can you help them?

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  7 месяцев назад +2

      www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/09/what-is-the-origin-of-the-word-tip-as-in-leaving-a-tip/

    • @chrismullin8304
      @chrismullin8304 7 месяцев назад

      @@TimLambert101 no silly, I meant make a video about it!

    • @TimLambert101
      @TimLambert101  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@chrismullin8304 OK