@Ghastltyghoulman your not un uncultured swine, I read Macbeth in high school English but still only learned the origins of the phrase from a rudimentary google search. I only mentioned it because Shakespeare is the origin of many English phrases and is responsible for many modern English conventions so the fact that the phrase comes from Macbeth should imply that it is very English, as opposed to French.
Though if you have free time read up on Macbeth; a lot of fun literary illusions originate from there and it’s a classic for subversion of prophesy. It’s kind of like how you have to learn some famous passages of the bible to get the subtext in a lot of major English works