It’s always neat when a word’s etymology basically boils down to “so yeah it literally meant this other thing which it would intuitively mean, but that’s been wiped out by a flowery idiomatic use of it to mean that same thing only allegorically instead of literally, to the point that no one even thinks about what the underlying literal meaning of it is anymore.”
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