When Business Language Sounds Like the Poker Table: Decoding Gambling and Saloon Origins in Financial Talk

https://idiominsider.com/from-knucklebones-to-algorithms-the-evolution-of-risk-language/

We use metaphors every day to compress complex ideas into a few vivid words. "Blue chip," "all in," "ace in the hole" - these phrases come with images: a felt table, a stack of chips, the hush of a saloon. That imagery can be useful