It always surprises me how these everyday words we use in English are actually opaque in etymology.
I mean, we say "throw up", but do we ever really think that it means to throw something in your belly up and out onto the floor or the street or into the toilet or wherever?
Likewise, a "saucer" probably once meant something that held sauce, but do we ever think of that?
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