Did you know the phrase "daylight robbery" actually comes from a time in England when taxes were levied on windows? The tax was such that only the richest residents could afford to have the sun peer into their city dwellings. The poor, literally, were "kept in the dark."
The term "turncoat" is another interesting one. It stems back to post WWII Europe, where Hungarian officials saved their hides by switching to communist uniforms after the Russian booted out the Nazis.
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