I was thinking about the phrase ‘The pot calling the kettle black’. It comes from a time where cooking was done over open fires and cookware would become visibly ashy. (Fun fact: It first appears and was perhaps coined by Cervantes in Don Quixote!)
What are some other idioms that have lost their literal connection to time? What would be a good modern replacement?
went from hell and back, obviously it has a very christiany origin to it as is moving heaven and earth.
Always took it as “moving the heavens and the earth” as in “I would change the stars in the sky” kind of a way. Way less Christiany but a lot more I am my own gody.