{"id":23,"date":"2013-01-07T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-01-24T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T14:18:44","slug":"23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: come from"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>come from<\/strong> <em>somewhere<br \/>\n<\/em>(transitive\/intransitive, inseparable)<br \/>\n<strong>Meaning: <\/strong>originate<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong> My blue eyes <strong>come from<\/strong> my dad.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, when there were no cameras, images were either sculpted or painted.\u00a0 Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were painted, but by how many limbs were to be painted.\u00a0 Arms and legs are \u201climbs\u201d therefore painting them would cost the buyer more. \u00a0This is where the expression \u201cit\u2019ll cost you an arm and a leg\u201d <strong>comes from<\/strong>. \u00a0We use this expression nowadays when something is very expensive. (ex. &#8220;My phone bill <em>costs an arm and a leg<\/em>!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Read about some more interesting origins:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/all-that-is-interesting.com\/post\/5692281236\/interesting-origins-of-7-common-english-idioms\">http:\/\/all-that-is-interesting.com\/post\/5692281236\/interesting-origins-of-7-common-english-idioms<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>come from somewhere (transitive\/intransitive, inseparable) Meaning: originate Example: My blue eyes come from my dad. In the past, when there were no cameras, images were either sculpted or painted.\u00a0 Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=23\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}