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Where did idioms come from? Have you ever thought that each idiom can have its own origin and history? Let's figure out some of them.

"To face the music" means to accept [ ]for something you have done. The history of this idiom has its origins in the British Army. The thing is that each military court was accompanied by an orchestra. So, every accused prisoner had to deal not only with the charges but also with the sounds of drums. In other words, they had to "face" and accept their [ ]acts to the sound of the music.

The history of the following idioms is directly related to the use of red and black ink in balancing. When calculating the debts and incomes of their clients, the [ ]highlighted the former in red, leaving the latter in black. Thus, "to be in the black" means to have some money on one's account. And "to be in the red" is associated with [ ]difficulties or debts.

"To live from hand to mouth" denotes the situation when someone barely makes ends meet and has just enough money to pay for the things that they need. It appeared during wartime, and other [ ]unstable years when people often did not know when they would have an opportunity to get food. That is why, in the literal sense, everything edible, that fell into the hands, was immediately sent to the mouth.

The next idiom is connected with an astronomical phenomenon called "a blue moon". This is the name of the full moon, which happens twice in one calendar month. The lunar month lasts 29.5 Earth days, so the [ ]that there will be two full moons in one calendar month is very low. For this reason, "once in a blue moon" is used to describe a very rare situation.