05-18-2004, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Queensland, Australia
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Bees Wax
This term, commonly used in the phrase none of your beeswax, is an Americanism dating to the 1930s. It is simply an intentional malapropism for business. It has nothing to do with actual wax.
Lose Face
In the expressions to save face and to lose face, the word face means reputation, or one's good name.
To lose face is a translation of the Chinese tiu lien. It first appears in English in 1876.
The word face itself, is from the French, which in turn is from the Latin facia. The English word dates to c. 1290.
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