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to this side, go to that website. Hey, if you

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to choose from. Thanks for being a part of the journey. Okay,

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those old saints phrases and idioms, you know those things

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that your family and friends they would say, and it

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usually came from out of nowhere, and sometimes they actually

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made sense. Well, they had to start somewhere, right, Who, what, where, why, when?

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And how? Some of those old scenes are not only ancient,

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but they still carry a powerful punch today. In fact,

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I live by one of those old saints. Winning is

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a choice. That is my daily mantra. The goal of

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these episodes is to help preserve not only a language,

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but lessons in life. My name is Arrow. I've dropped

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a clanger. This is so British, and being here in

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Carolina with its foreign ancestry, such an expression still pours

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into the making of our every day, only to leave

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us wondering if it was stolen from money python. I've

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dropped a clanger is what the British say when they've

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made an embarrassing mistake or said something that's absolutely foolish. Now,

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most Americans would act in a different way. They would

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pretty much say, well, I just screwed up. The phrase

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or slang first made an appearance in the world in

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the early part of the twentieth century. The word clanger

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comes from clang, a loud metallic ringing associated with something

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like hitting metal. When you make a mistake or a clanger,

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it's ringing out. It can't be ignored. The British military

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actually started using the term during the World War II era,

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which makes me want to go back and research the

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messages and live speeches of Winston Churchill just to see

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if he said, well, damn, I just dropped a clanger.

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What about Queen Elizabeth or King Charles when that writing

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instrument exploded in his hand on global television? Did he

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kind of softly whisper to himself, I guess I just

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dropped a clanger. Oh wait, I think it's only the

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common folk that can really understand this slang. I dropped

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a clanger. Something our parents would say. My name is Arrow,