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When someone says 'Goodbye' to you, do you lecture them on the religious origins of the word ('God be with ye')?

TIL "sells down the river"'s origins.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/326500.html

Damn. Thanks for that, had no idea and have probably used it once or twice. Back into passive vocabulary you go. (Non-native english yada yada)

Can you explain how you came to that interpretation?

Where do you think the phrase "sold down the river" came from - from slaves being sold to be sent down the Mississippi River to the slave markets in New Orleans.

I do hope you never use the word 'sinister', which of course comes from the old belief that left-handed people are somehow the spawn of the devil. Or refer to someone getting "their pound of flesh", which is Shakespeare's quaint variant on the blood libel. Etc, etc.

Uh oh, we've got someone here who can't comprehend hyperbole.

No, he used a figure of speech, which you chose to interpret in the least useful way possible.

#rekt

at least he didn't Godwin's Law[0] it?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law