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Questions about tracing out and describing the elements of an individual word, as well as the historical changes in form and sense which that word has experienced over its history. Please use the 'phrase-origin' tag for phrase/expression origins.

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What's the origin of "throwing someone under the bus"?

I think it probably comes from the ethical thought experiment known as the "Trolley Problem." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem. One way of phrasing the problem is you can push the l …
G D Milner's user avatar