Idiom of the Day
keep time
to keep track of the time in a game or athletic contest
I kept time during the football game at our high school.
Fact
When potatoes first appeared in Europe in the seventeenth century, it was thought that they were disgusting, and they were blamed for starting outbreaks of leprosy and syphilis. As late as 1720 in America, eating potatoes was believed to shorten a person's life.
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