Hey guys! Have you listened to Craig David’s latest song? It goes like this:
Because i can’t sleep til you’re next to me
No i can’t live without you no more
Oh i stay up til you’re next to me
Til this house feels like it did before
Feels like oniomania ah ah, Feels like oniomania ah ah
Feels like oniomania ah ah, Feels like oniomania ah ah
HAHA! Just for pun (fun)!
No wonder when people mishear the song, they tend to buy a lot of onions.
A Fire Sale is a sale of goods damaged by smoke/water after a fire in a retail outlet. The expression has broadened over the years to include sales announced due to any kind of distress.
oniomancy
-> a form of divination conducted by examining the patterns on an onion.
Just kidding! Here’s the right term:
oinomancy
—is a form of divination conducted by examining patterns in wine. An ancient technique, oinomancy was performed by a priestess known as a Bacchante, and protected by Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.
In French, the expression “Ce n’est pas tes oignons” (literally: “It’s not your onions”) means that a topic is none of the listener’s business. (In the 1990 Reforms of French orthography, the spelling oignon was officially “corrected” to ognon.)
source: D. E. Ager, Language Policy in Britain and France, p. 121 ff.
It is thought that bulbs from the onion family have been used as a food source for millennia. In Bronze Age settlements, traces of onion remains were found alongside fig and date stones dating back to 5000 BC.
However, it is not clear if these were cultivated onions. Archaeological and literary evidence such as the Book of Numbers 11:5 suggests cultivation probably took place around two thousand years later in ancient Egypt, at the same time that leeks and garlic were cultivated. Workers who built the Egyptian pyramids may have been fed radishes and onions.
