Daisy means day's eye and denotes the flower's opening at sunrise and closing at sunset. The appearance of a defeated cock in a cockfight gave us the word crestfallen . Red tape was used by 19th century bureaucrats to tie official documents together. Oilmen called a drink they invented a screwdriver because that was the tool they most often used to stir it. Upshot referred to the last shot in an archery contest, at which time scores totaled up scores and announced winners.
Dandelion means tooth of the lion .
Noon comes from newn , which meant the ninth hour after dawn , or 3 o'clock, the hour Christ was crucified. Wall Street was named for a stone barricade originally designed to protect colonists from Indian attack. We call if a boxing ring because a ring of spectators in England once encircled the fighters. An animal that pulled next to another animal in a wagon train was known as a sidekick . Knuckle under traces its origins back to knockel , which meant knee joint and later came to mean fall to one's knees .