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    PARADOX

    [16th century: from Latin paradoxum, paradoxon, from Greek paradoxos contrary to opinion or expectation] A term in rhetoric for a situation or statement that is or seems self contradictory and even absudr, but may contain an insight into life, such as "The child is father of the man." Rationally, a child cannot be a father , but one can propose in this figurative way that the nature of one's early life affects later ideas and attitudes.
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    MORAL

    From French moral < Latin mōrālis (“‘relating to manners or morals’”) (first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (“‘moral’”)) < mos (“‘manner, custom’”).

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    Relating to standards of good behavior, honesty, and fair dealing, or showing high standards of this type
    Examples:
    a highly moral man
    It's her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows.
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    SELL SOMEBODY DOWN THE RIVER

    to give poor or unfair treatment to sb you have promised to help


    From the custom of buying and selling slaves on the plantations on the Mississippi river in America. Slaves who caused trouble for their masters could be sold to plantation owners lower down the river, where conditions would be worse.



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    THE EXCEPTION PROVES THE RULE

    The common meaning today is that the existence of an exception is in some way evidence that the rule exists (which is somewhat illogical) - this has to be one of the most confused figures of speech in the English language; the original expression actually derives from a Latin legal term from the 1600s, 'exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis' ('in the cases not excepted') which came into common use as 'exceptio probat regulam' ('the exception establishes the rule'), whose proper and logical meaning was that the exception provides the opportunity to test and refine more accurately the scope of the rule, (neither proving the existence or otherwise of the exception or the rule!).

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    FORTNIGHT

    Fortnight is a contraction of the Old English féowertyneniht, literally meaning fourteen nights. From the manuscript Laws of Ina, dated to sometime before 1000:

        Oþ ðæt feowertyne niht ofer Eastron.
        (Until the fourteen nights of Easter.)

    The form fortnight developed in the 13th century. We can see this in different versions of a 13th century poem. The first, from c.1205:

        Nou his folle feowertene niht þat he hire haueþ i-holde forþ riht.
        (Now his full fourteen nights that he has held her forth right.)

    And the second, from c.1275, substitutes fourteniht for feowertene niht.

    In addition to fortnight, there used to be the term sennight, from the Old English seofon nihta (seven nights). This remained in use through the 19th century, but eventually became obsolete, leaving us with just fortnight.





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