Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CHIFFCHAFF
Etymology
Noun
chiffchaff (plural chiffchaffs)
A small, common warbler, Phylloscopus collybita, with yellowish-green plumage that breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
Any of several other species of the same genus.
(UK, onomatopoeic, uncountable) The song of the chiffchaff.
Source: Wiktionary
Chiff"-chaff (, n. Etym: [So called from its note.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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