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The month that promised flowers, delivered taxes, and opened with a lie.
means The fourth month of the year, thirty days long, bridging early spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
from Likely from Latin aperire, to open, when buds and blossoms crack the world back open; some link it to Venus via the Greek Aphrodite.
Old calendarWas the second month in the Roman year.
FoolsApril 1 pranks date back centuries, origins murky.
BirthstoneThe diamond, because spring should look expensive.
Poets agreeEliot called it the cruellest month.