You use them every single day: "without further ado," "to no avail," "at your beck and call." But do you know what "ado" actually means, or who’s doing the "beckoning"? Like many others, these are fossil words, pieces of language that vanished from everyday English centuries ago, except for one lucky phrase that kept them alive. Some come from Shakespeare, some from Old English assemblies, and one even comes from a word for murderous rage. These 10 everyday expressions have some wonderfully strange stories behind them.