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“Uhhh…..wait- what was the question again?”

So I just learned that the word "clue" comes for the Early Modern English "clewe", meaning "ball of yarn", a word used by Chaucer in his retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus, who fell in love with Ariadne, the daughter of the evil king Minos, and was sentenced to fight to his death against the Minotaur as a punishment for this forbidden love, and of how Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of yarn to help him get out of Daedalus' labyrinth in spite of her father wishes. And apparently this retelling by Chaucer became so popular that people started using it as a metaphor to indicate something that helps you solve a problem or a mystery - a clue.