Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and 

still smelled pretty good by June. 

However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a bouquet of flowers

to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

 Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.   

The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, 

then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children-last of all the babies.

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. 

Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

 Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. 

It was the only place for animals to get warm, 

so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. 

When it rained it became 

slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. 

Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

 England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. 

So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a

"bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 

1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside 

and they realized they had been burying people alive. 

So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it

through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone

would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift")

to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was

considered a "dead ringer."