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Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
Interesting, the gun related phrases like " flash in the pan" are self explanatory to us guys..
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Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
Aye, as in "don't go off half-cocked."gamekeeper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 6:30 amInteresting, the gun related phrases like " flash in the pan" are self explanatory to us guys..
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Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
Give them the whole nine yards. Early machine gun belts were 9 yards long.
a Pennsylvanian who has been accused of clinging to my religion and my guns......Good assessment skills.
Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
I think that once you added up all the 50cal. ammo a fighter was armed with, the total length of the belts were 9 yards.
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Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
Going off half-cocked and lock, stock and barrel are familiar phrases. Self explanatory.
Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
Lets blow this popsicle stand.
Build up a head of steam.
The real McCoy.
For the birds.
Build up a head of steam.
The real McCoy.
For the birds.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
Minor Correction
"Close but no cigar" was Bill describing Hillary to Monica.
"Close but no cigar" was Bill describing Hillary to Monica.
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Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
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Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
These are two of my favorites...
Old No7
POSH
The story goes that the more well-to-do passengers on ships travelling between England and India used to have POSH written against their bookings, standing for "Port Out, Starboard Home" (indicating the more desirable cabins, on the shady side of the ship).
S H I T
In the 1800's, cow pie's were collected on the prairie and boxed and loaded on steam ships to burn instead of wood. Wood was not only hard to find, but heavy to move around and store. When the boxes of cow pie's were in the sun for days on board the ships, they would smell bad; same goes if they got wet in the bilge. So when the manure was boxed up, they stamped the outside of the box, S.H.I.T....which means "Ship High In Transit".
When people came aboard the ship and said,"Oh what is that smell!" They were told it was the s h * t.
Turns out that last one ** may not be true; but hey, it's a great story!
Old No7
**
Clever as all that may be, whoever came up with it doesn't know sh*t about "sh*t."
In fact, the word is much older than the 1800s, appearing in its earliest form about 1,000 years ago as the Old English verb scitan. That is confirmed by lexicographer Hugh Rawson in his bawdily edifying book, Wicked Words, where it is further noted that the expletive is distantly related to words like science, schedule and shield, all of which derive from the Indo-European root skei-, meaning "to cut" or "to split." You get the idea.
For most of its history "sh*t" was spelled "sh*te" (and sometimes still is), but the modern, four-letter spelling of the word can be found in texts dating as far back as the mid-1700s. It most certainly did not originate as an acronym invented by 19th-century sailors.
Apropos that false premise, Rawson observes that "sh*t" has long been the subject of naughty wordplay, very often based on made-up acronyms on the order of "Ship High in Transit."
For example:
In the Army, officers who did not go to West Point have been known to disparage the military academy as the South Hudson Institute of Technology.... And if an angelic six-year-old asks, "Would you like to have some Sugar Honey Iced Tea?", the safest course is to pretend that you have suddenly gone stone deaf.
Lastly, all these stories are reminiscent of another popular specimen of folk etymology claiming that the f-word (another good old-fashioned, all-purpose, four-letter expletive) originated as the acronym of "Fornication Under Consent of the King" (or, in another version, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge").
Suffice it to say, it's all C.R.A.P...................................
Old No7
POSH
The story goes that the more well-to-do passengers on ships travelling between England and India used to have POSH written against their bookings, standing for "Port Out, Starboard Home" (indicating the more desirable cabins, on the shady side of the ship).
S H I T
In the 1800's, cow pie's were collected on the prairie and boxed and loaded on steam ships to burn instead of wood. Wood was not only hard to find, but heavy to move around and store. When the boxes of cow pie's were in the sun for days on board the ships, they would smell bad; same goes if they got wet in the bilge. So when the manure was boxed up, they stamped the outside of the box, S.H.I.T....which means "Ship High In Transit".
When people came aboard the ship and said,"Oh what is that smell!" They were told it was the s h * t.
Turns out that last one ** may not be true; but hey, it's a great story!
Old No7
**
Clever as all that may be, whoever came up with it doesn't know sh*t about "sh*t."
In fact, the word is much older than the 1800s, appearing in its earliest form about 1,000 years ago as the Old English verb scitan. That is confirmed by lexicographer Hugh Rawson in his bawdily edifying book, Wicked Words, where it is further noted that the expletive is distantly related to words like science, schedule and shield, all of which derive from the Indo-European root skei-, meaning "to cut" or "to split." You get the idea.
For most of its history "sh*t" was spelled "sh*te" (and sometimes still is), but the modern, four-letter spelling of the word can be found in texts dating as far back as the mid-1700s. It most certainly did not originate as an acronym invented by 19th-century sailors.
Apropos that false premise, Rawson observes that "sh*t" has long been the subject of naughty wordplay, very often based on made-up acronyms on the order of "Ship High in Transit."
For example:
In the Army, officers who did not go to West Point have been known to disparage the military academy as the South Hudson Institute of Technology.... And if an angelic six-year-old asks, "Would you like to have some Sugar Honey Iced Tea?", the safest course is to pretend that you have suddenly gone stone deaf.
Lastly, all these stories are reminiscent of another popular specimen of folk etymology claiming that the f-word (another good old-fashioned, all-purpose, four-letter expletive) originated as the acronym of "Fornication Under Consent of the King" (or, in another version, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge").
Suffice it to say, it's all C.R.A.P...................................
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Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
The real McCoy was a device for steam engines that shook sand onto the rails to give traction to the drive wheels. McCoy was the best of several such devices. Railroad engineers wanted the real McCoy.
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
"Keep your powder dry" is another worth noting unless someone already mentioned it.
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Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
My dad used to say someone "doesn't know sh*# from Shinola".
Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
It is interesting to note that the variations of the word c r a p in no less than five european languages seriously predate (centuries) the thomas crapper patents of myth and legend.
m.A.g.a. !
Re: Where Do These Phrases Come From?
Shinola was a brand of shoe polish, similar to Kiwi or Lincoln Wax. If you got your shoe polish mixed up with excrement, you were stupid. I wonder if it ever happened?
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost