Just found out the origin of “grandfathered in”.
What else has a problematic history you didn’t realize until later?
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“Off the reservation”. Like it’s obvious on its face if you think about it for two seconds, but it’s just an idiom, I never thought about it.
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What the other guy said, it’s something you hear in like a cop movie where the chief says to the maverick hero cop “you’re off the reservation Johnson!” because he’s been doing maverick cop stuff.
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I’m not super familiar with the idiom in common parlance, how is it usually used?
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