Show budget original meaning the word budget can be traced back to the latin word bulga but it Is believed that this was itself an adaptation of a word from the celtic tan language guage of 0 old gaut gaul it meant a leather ileather ba bag and from it we have the old english bouge a bag bae and budget a little bag which was waa in slang used to mean something like a bag of tricks in 1733 a pamphlet on sir robert Wal poles forthcoming excise bill was published entitled the budget opened the phrase being used as equivalent to tho the cat out of the bag henceforth a chancellor of the exchequer making his statement of proposed taxes was said to open his budget and soon the word budget was used without jocular intent of the statement itself montreal family herald |