Today I Found Out

How a Wife Beating, Serial Killer Puppet Gave us the Expression "Pleased as Punch" (2017x229)

Data de estreia: Set 25, 2017

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support→“punch” refers to the character in Punch and Judy, a puppet show that has its roots in Italy’s 16th-century commedia dell’arte. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/origin-phrase-pleased-punch/ Sources: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-pleased-as-punch.html http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ple1.htm http://www.thepjf.com/history_of_punch_and_judy.html http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1662/05/ http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/08/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980423 Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swanage_Punch_%26_Judy.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tony_Blair_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Dickens_circa_1860.jpg https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-130776698/stock-photo-tax-inspector-investigating-financial-documents-through-magnifying-glass-forensic-accounting-or-financial-forensics-inspecting-offshore-company-financial-papers-documents-and-reports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy#/media/File:Punch_Plaque_Covent_Garden.jpg http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4993000 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_%26_Judy_show_(19318725713).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_and_Judy_Thornton_Hough.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Hitler_45.jpg Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.