Famous Sayings: #60 — ‘Mess with the Bull…’

May 5, 2017

When you mess with the bull, you’ll get the horns.

Charging Bull in New York City. Photo by Sam valadi via Flickr. Some rights reserved.

I picked this idiom because it’s May and I have a little bit of an interest in astrology. (Although I heard we could be off with our calendar. There may be even more constellations we chose not to include in our twelve-month calendar.)

Anyway, if you were born between April 20 and May 20, you are a Taurus, which is the bull.

Now, this was a rather hard idiom to research. There is not a lot to suggest where or when this saying developed, although I have a common idea.