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Many reconsidering using common expressions with dark origins

Even the seemingly innocuous phrase, "cat got your tongue" could be traced to a dark time in the English Navy, when sailors would use a whip called the cat-o-nine tails to flog victims. The pain was so intense that those on the receiving end of the blows couldn't speak. Jake Reiner reports.
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