Economy
Why “shelling out” once meant paying with shells
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Whenever you grumble about handing over cash for an expensive dinner, you are inadvertently referencing prehistoric marine life. Because cowrie shells were utilized as the primary medium of exchange across immense swaths of the ancient world, the act of physically counting out pieces of a dead mollusk birthed an idiom we still use today.
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