The Origin of Some of Them "Garrying coals to Neweastle" is an obscure phrase either in meaning or origin; "Hobson's choice" is pretty generally under-Jstood, but numerous phrases are uttered daily by: people who, while they appreciate their immediate significance, do not always know hhow they came into being.
Some of them may be traced back through hundreds of years. An me stance of this is the common collofquialism, "on tick," which was in use even before the dawn of the seventeenth century, when trades men's bills were known as tickets, and to take goods "on ticket" was [to have them credited to your ne=
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