The Strange Origin Of The Term ‘Pyrrhic Victory’
Many phrases exist today that we normalize as just being run-of-the-mill, as it were. ‘Run of the mill’ is one of them. But it only came into usage in the early twentieth century to say something is ‘average,’ ‘typical,’ or ‘common.’ Before this, it was used in industrial factories packing flour in Britain. So it […]
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