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

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family and friends usually brought up. And really they came

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from out of nowhere, but only sometimes they actually made sense. Well,

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they had to start somewhere, right, Who, what, where, why, when?

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

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but still carry a powerful punch. Even today, I live

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by one of those old saints. Winning is a choice.

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The goal of these episodes is to help preserve not

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only a language, but lessons in life. My name is Arrow.

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In a pickle, it means to be in difficult or

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troublesome situations. It actually got its big quirkiness from the

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Dutch and Low Germans. The Dutch word is peckel, spicy

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vinegar is used to preserve the food. Being in a

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pickle refers to being in a messy situation, like that

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of a peckl. It was William Shakespeare who first used

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it within the writing of his book The Tempest in

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sixteen eleven, Alonzo, who asks how comest thou in this pickle?

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Drinklo replies, I have been in such a pickle since

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I saw you last. In this case, pickle means sorry

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or embarrassing. Some say it was a hint to admitting

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that they have been drinking through time in a pickle

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has evolved into being a lighter way of admitting difficult times,

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confusing situations, and troublesome areas of decision making. What sounds

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like culinary is actually a metaphor from the idea of

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being stewed and muddled. Yeah, muddled, another sixteenth century expression,

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and again the Dutch get credit for that. In bartending

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to muddle means to crush ingredients to release their flavors, which,

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when you break it down, it's still connected to the

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original roots. When you are muddled, you're in a pickle.

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Something our parents would say. My name is Erro.