Inspired by http://books.google.com/ngrams/ which is where Google has been scanning books and indexing the words in them. You can track the history of words and phrases you are interested in and show how often they come up "in print".
This blog shows words and phrases I thought were interesting.
24 January 2013
meteoric rise
Bit of an oxymoron, meteors don't generally rise, they fall. Didn't stop the
expression catching on though from around 1900
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