BEHIND THE WORDS:

                                                                  

                                                 BY THE GRAPEVINE

When we hear a news that has travelled from someone to someone and then again from  someone to someone and then again ……………………… okay and finally to us ,we say we heard the news by the grapevine. But why should be it ‘by the grapevine’? The answer is in the history and telecommunication. Telegraphy was seen as a  wonder boon for transfer of information .But it needed a bundle of wires to be erected near the building.During the civil War ii, people found the bundle of wires to be the only source of information and they did not know what to believe and what not to believe.And the bundle of wires looked like grapevine.So how did they get to know the information? Ofcourse, by the grapevine.

                                                                  

                                                  GREENHORN

Since the word young means something young ,people used this word  ‘greenhorn’to denote young calves that have not grown horns yet. Beautiful name,Isn’t it? Then in course of time ,this word started  to mean people who are new and without experiences in something.e.g He is a greenhorn in share market .