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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vincent Montefusco, post: 195783, member: 2188&quot;]Here&#039;s a little teaser for all you out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of us, particularly in UK, use this phrase a lot but few know where it originates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the days of Henry VIII, having your portrait painted by a good artist was a great status symbol. However, as today, there were wealthy people and then super wealthy people. Having a portrait painted at all was hugely expensive so most people just had their head and shoulders in the portrait. But, if you were seriously rich you could have your whole figure immortalised in oil, as Henry famously did. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, the saying, it costs an arm and a leg harps back to the time when to have those limbs included in a painting massively increased the cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a little bit of antique trivia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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