Folk Etymology

The genuine article rather than an inferior imitation, used to affirm that a person or thing is authentic and not counterfeit.

To ride shotgun is to occupy the front passenger seat beside the driver; more broadly, to accompany someone as a protective or supporting second.

To bring home the bacon is to earn a living or achieve a decisive success, supplying what is needed through one’s efforts.

To spill the beans is to disclose secret or private information, often prematurely or accidentally, giving away what was meant to stay hidden.

To give someone the cold shoulder is to treat them with deliberate coldness or indifference, pointedly ignoring or snubbing them.

Son of a gun is a mild exclamation of surprise or annoyance, or a jocular, half-affectionate term for a man or rogue.

Raining very heavily; a vivid, hyperbolic expression for a downpour of unusually intense and torrential rain.

Elegant, luxurious, or characteristically upper-class in a stylish and sometimes ostentatious way; smart, fashionable and expensive-seeming.

Rescued from a difficult or losing situation at the last possible moment by a timely interruption or intervention.

A warm parting wish that someone sleep soundly and securely through the night, typically said at bedtime.