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1. The phrase, "to turn a blind eye" is often used to refer to a wilful refusal to acknowledge a particular reality and is believed to have originated when Horatio Nelson lifted his telescope to his bad eye during which battle?
2. To be caught "red handed" means discovered in the act, and originally pertained to the crimes of murder and poaching. In which country was the phrase used in legal proceedings from the 15th century onward?
3. "Cleanliness is next to godliness" is a phrase many people know, but where would you find the earliest written version of it?
4. "Keep the ball rolling", is a phrase most of us know. Where did it originate?
5. "Put your dukes up" is an invitation to fight and has its origins in which of the following?
6. "Nothing is certain, but death and taxes" is a phrase often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but who, in 1726, wrote an earlier version of this?
7. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" is an old phrase, which dates back to the 17th century and is from a contemporary of Shakespeare.
8. The original animal susceptible to a red rag, as in the phrase, "A red rag to a bull", was which of the following?
9. "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen" originated in the 1940s and was coined by which man?
10. The expression "by the skin of my teeth", meaning narrowly escaping a disaster, originated in the Bible.
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