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Speaker 1: Those old saints, phrases, idioms, you know, the things your

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family and friends would pop up at any given time,

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and it came from out of nowhere, and only sometimes

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it actually made sense. Well, they had to start somewhere, right, Who, what, where, why,

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when and how? Some of those old saints are not

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only ancient, but 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. The goal of these episodes is to help

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preserve not only a language, but lessons in life. My

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name is Arrow. Worry Wart. Oh, I heard a lot

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about that growing up with my worry wart mother. First,

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it's not two words. It's actually a compound word, worry wart.

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It originated in the late part of the nineteen twenties,

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created by J. R. Williams. It was his job creating

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a comic strip worry Wart. The young boy was brought

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to life on his pages, and his character was worry Wart.

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That's the name his older brother gave him, and it

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was used as a nickname. The term later took shape

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in our everyday language a person who worries excessively. Although

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the strip is given total credit, when you dig deeper

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into the research, it reveals it began to spread around

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the world around World War II. So many people don't

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want to be associated with being a worry wart, mainly

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because warts are associated with frogs. Being worried might mean

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you're around the amphibians. A worry wart isn't someone who worries,

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but worries needlessly, often without justifiable reasons. Carson Daley from

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The Today Show recently admitted on national television that he

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was a worry wart kid. It led to frequent panic attacks,

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which he still suffers from even today. So often worry

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warts are accused of exaggerating. When you call somebody a

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worry wart, you're pretty much saying you're overstressed, dude. The

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truth is most people really don't know what it's like

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that in itself will make you a worry wart. Something

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our parents would say. My name is Arrow,