There are a few questions I have about common phrases, here’s a list and feel free to add your own
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is it still called “having beef” with someone if your vegan or vegetarian?
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it’s raining cats and dogs?! Where did this come from?
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Yep
Cats and dogs may come from the Greek expression cata doxa, which means “contrary to experience or belief.” If it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining unusually or unbelievably hard.So the phrase cats and dogs might be deprived from the Greek expression.
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Oui 
since it’s not a real piece of beef it’s still called “having beef”
Maybe the rain was heavy? 
There are a lot of such phrases in German and I still wonder what the story behind them is
Did anyone else sometimes misuse common phrases when they were younger or am I just a weird human?
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I read somewhere that the word ‘okay’ was originally the letters ‘O.K.’ which stand for the Greek words ‘Ola kala’ which means ‘everything is good’. There are other theories, but I like this explanation the best.
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There is one in the south that is always weird to me.
If it’s raining in broad daylight then it means “the devil is beating his wife”, I have never understood where this came from but it was always something I heard.
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I don’t get it
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I know…it’s annoyingly stupid. It’s a southern bible saying that makes no sense.
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I’m sorry, I posted on the wrong thread. 
I find the N.Y. word “dead ass” so spot on for some reason.
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Yeets a bump
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Lmao
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