In common parlance, we usually use the terms that have originated from the name or the surname of the man or woman who first conceived or performed some action.
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ALLEN owes its name to a mechanical Monza, Giles Allen, who perfected this small but clever tool, which, to tell the truth already existed in a more rudimentary, patented it and made a huge success.
Boycott The term owes its origin to Charles Boycott, an English administrator in Ireland which hampered industrial action. The community reacted with hostility by pretending that he no longer existed.
diesel fuel is named after the inventor of the first internal combustion engine Rudolf Diesel.
The word chauvinist (which indicates an excessive love of country) takes the name by Nicholas Chovin (in Italian is pronounced Scioven), a soldier who served in the great army of Napoleon.
green color blindness. John Dalton, mathematician, physicist and chemist was the first to describe accurately the lack of vision in which he suffered and that he was named. Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier
. The two French brothers who invented the balloon.
Etienne de Silhouette. He gave his name to pants without pockets designed at the time. He was a minister of Louis XV.
Who does not remember Mr. Guillotin, French physician who was a member of the committee that chose the guillotine (which he designed) as a method more "humane" capital punishment?
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the term self-evident (which means "clear, obvious") that comes from the French Marshal Palice, known for his habit of saying things trivial and obvious.
The term "banana republic" is used to describe a country ruled by a leader who manages and legislate according to their own interests and those of his friends, they forgot the true needs of the people. This term was coined by the English writer O. Henry, who used it to describe the Honduras, a small politically unstable country in the hands of multinational corporations and a corrupt oligarchy.
"Out like a balcony," is an expression that defines a person not just in itself. E 'was used for the first time plaintiff Italian Paolo Rossi, and from that moment on, entered the common language.
