Old expressions sometimes come out wrong - have you ever heard someone say don't "Gild The Lily" or he just did "A Hat Trick" and wonder what they meant? Here's a couple of expressions and their meanings to add to your ten cent crazy book
"Gild The Lily"
To gild means to cover something with a thin layer of gold - in an old play - Shakespeare talks about gilding a crown that's already gold or painting a Lily that's already beautiful or adding perfume to a violet that already smells wonderful - but through the years the expression was changed and shortened - first to "Painting The Lily" and than finally shortened to don't "Gild The Lily". In other words - don't add to something that's already perfect.
"A Hat Trick"
I always thought that "A Hat Trick" had something to do with a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat and had only heard the expression around horse racing (such as the same horse winning the triple crown), but "A Hat Trick" can occur in any sport when three consecutive goals are scored - it seems that this expression goes back to 1858 in a cricket game - but it became a popular saying in 1967 when a hat store in Montreal offered a free hat to any hockey player scoring three goals during a game in Montreal - of course at the time there were only six NHL teams.
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