Common causes, cures for a persistent cough. Cough for a minute or two, and you may think something has gone down the wrong pipe.. Cough for a day or two, and you may think you've picked up a cold or the flu. After a week, bronchitis or allergies may come to mind.
Some ninety years ago Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase âuseful idiotâ and it originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would âsell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).â.
Origin of Phrase. The phrase No Taxation Without Representation! was coined by Reverend Jonathan Mayhew in a sermon in Boston in 1750. By 1765 the term no taxation without representation was in use in Boston, but no one is sure who first used it. British perspectives.