In The Spirit of Things

Just to add some more of my own thoughts...cheesy but oh well...cheesiness sets in after a long day at work..;p
Was thinking of some of these when I was on the train home and then later when I was taking a shower..interesting what one can come up with if you put your mind on it.. haha..

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Loads of expressions are used in the English language and I wonder how did they ever come about...
It rains cats and dogs and you suffer from pins and needles and you hear cock and bull stories.
If the pot calls the kettle black then what does the pan call the wok?

On the subject of oxymorons..how can a "daily special" be special if it appears on a daily basis?
And there perhaps isn't a "constant change" for if something remains constant, then there is no change?
How can you "act naturally" if you don't act when you are natural? How can a "graduate student" be a student if he's a graduate? There is no such thing as an "open secret", it should technically be called news already if everyone knew about it.

How can very good and awfully good and terribly good all mean the same thing?

If the little uns of chickens are called chicks? Then why aren't the little uns of ducks called dicks?
If the plural of louse is lice, why ain't the plural of grouse called grice?
If there is one you call it a sheep, but if there are two you can't call them sheeps.

Colours that don't run are fast but people that don't run are slow. You cut up a tree after you cut it down. You can rat on a person but you can't cat on them.

You can have a person and some persons. You can have a people but why can't you have some peoples?

p/s: How do you keep your "eyes wide shut" anyway?