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Your insides, outsourced as a fortune-telling device since before spreadsheets existed.
means The internal organs of a body, especially the guts — what's inside you that normally stays inside.
from From Old French 'entrailles,' tracing back to Late Latin 'intralia,' a form of 'interanea' meaning 'internal things' — built from 'inter,' meaning 'within' or 'among.' The word has always pointed inward, long before haruspices started reading livers for omens.
- ancient use
- Romans read sheep livers to approve wars
- official term
- haruspicy, the art of guts-as-oracle
- modern echo
- we still say gut feeling, unknowingly
- etymology
- from Latin interanea, simply the insides