
Why do we say “do a forty-eight” to indicate a chaotic and revolutionary situation?
“Making a Forty-Eight” it means creating so much disruption that you question everything. The idiom refers to the 1848when Italy and Europe were shocked by a series of revolutionary movements and riots which undermined the established order. But what is meant more precisely when we say “do a forty-eight”? And why exactly this number and year was associated with the ...








