BEHIND THE WORDS:

                                                      TANTALISE

This word actually comes from a story, to be exact, from Greek mythology in which Tantalus  was a king who became famous when he received  ‘anniyan’ kind of  punishment designed for  the evildoers .The Greek Gods have put him inside a river below some tree. Whenever he wanted to eat a fruit from the tree, the height of the tree rose above his limits. Whenever he wanted to drink the water ,the river dried. .Now the story ends. The moral of the story is when something we want is off-limits for us , we say we are tantalised by it.

                                                                        

                                                     ABOVEBOARD

     For this word, we have  to thank the game of cards since this word came from it.It is said that the French insisted that the cards should be held above the table  i.e  above the board  so that the players couldn’t cheat by switching the cards. Maybe now, there are other tricks for cheating and it is not our concern .our concern is when something is done honestly, we say it is done aboveboard.