The term actually originated from the British Cricket games. Any bowler who retired three batsmen with three consecutive balls in cricket was entitled to a new hat at the expense of the club to commemorate this feat. Later, the term was used to indicate three consecutive scores in other sports. The phrase finally broadened to include any string of three important successes or achievements, in any field.
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Feel it in my Bones
Shakespeare Timon of Athens. ‘I feel’t upon my bones.’
The word was derived from the Latin words for ‘lord’ and ‘House’. It used to mean ‘the house of a lord’.
It later came to mean the rooms underneath the lord’s castle
John Neil (1825) – Brother Jonathan
“As if the Yankee man were determined to leave the briggadier without a leg to stand upon, as a lawyer would say.”
John Fletcher (1624) – A Wife for a Month
‘She is very honest, and will be hard to cut as a rough diamond.’