Today let's take a look at a few idioms concerning money. Might as well start with "cold hard cash"...when coins changed from being mainly gold and silver which were softer and warmer than the metals used to replace them,the merchants noticed the difference when handling the coins and referred to the new money as cold and hard. As with most idioms "Bringing Home the Bacon"has more than one possible origin but my favorite is from England in the 1100s when couple could bring home a side of bacon if they swore to the clergy that they hadn't argued in the last year.
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