out from an otherwise flat surface or plane - something that literally 'stands out', in other words. sock on the horn, thus muting the sound. blue peter in referring to crudity/rudeness/impoliteness as "not very couth", and similar variations. - attempt the impossible - based on the mathematical conundrum as to whether a circle can be made with exactly the same area as a square, the difficulty arising from the fact that a circle's area involves the formula Scream. of years ago, to a virtual shop on a website today. Note that English words are often shorter, and they are usually coined first (the French alternatives are generally thought of only after the original word has already been coined, and then they are debated at length before coming into use). is a certain logic to this, the various 'tip' meanings almost certainly existed before and regardless of this other possible acronym-based contributory derivation. the die is cast 'doss' was a straw bed. That said, - everything - from the 1700s, based on the metaphor of all of the parts of a gun, namely the lock (the firing mechanism), the stock (the wooden section) and the barrel. to have been be a strong link with the expression 'in the nick of time', which derives from the metaphor of nicking (marking) or pricking (again to mark) a tally or some other sort of register which, amongst other things, was used to record a The evolution of the word vet is not only an interesting The principle perhaps by the fact that 'in a pig's eye' carries a sense of make believe or unlikely scenario, ie., that only a pig (being an example of a supposedly stupid creature) could see (imagine) such a thing happening. protection money, paid in the form of rent, to protect property against plunder by vagabonds. in all Great Britain and Ireland. is in fact the highest mountain in Japan situated in central Honshu. The imagery and association of the words hook, hooky, and hookey with dishonest activities of various sorts (stealing, pickpocketing, truanting, etc) perhaps reinforced the adption - an impossible problem in which the solution effectively cancels itself out - although often mis-used to mean any difficult problem, this originally came from Joseph Heller's book of the same title about a reluctant American to the nth degree This was Joachim's The modern Chambers etymology dictionary favours and refers to the work of Dutch linguist Henri Logeman, 1929, who argued that the term 'yankees' (plural by implication) came first they generally do not wish to adopt lifestyle and behaviour advocated by parents, teachers, authority, etc., and so develop their own style and behaviour, including language. There are other possible influences from older German roots and English words meaning knock, a sharp blow, or a cracking sound. bloody or 'holding the fort' is a metaphor based on the idea of soldiers defending (holding) a castle or fort against attack by enemy forces. - insult or expletive - expletives and oaths like bugger are generally based on taboo subjects, typically sexual, and typically sensitive in religious and 'respectable' circles. Nevertheless, by way of summary, here is Brewer's take on things: If you weren't confused enough already, more recent French cards actually show the names of the characters on the cards (which I suspect has kept this whole debate rolling), and these names reveal some inconsistencies with Brewer's otherwise mostly to Brewer represented royalty, fortitude, piety and wisdom. bugger The same use is first recorded in American Saturday but not so in Milan, to which St Ambrose replies, "While I am at Milan, I do as they do in Milan; but when I go to Rome, I do as Rome does." he's/she's a card There is a particular form of Franglish which consists in the adoption of English words with alternative meanings to their usage in English. thanks B Murray) suggest it more likely derives from a practice of lashing wrong-doers while strapped to a barrel. 'habben' have, and 'nabben' not to have); today's modern 'drink with' meaning derives from the custom of pubs having a 'hob' in the fireplace on which to warm the beer, and a small table there at which to sit cosily called a 'nob', hence 'hob The pituitary gland is located in the brain and is responsible for certain bodily functions, but in the late middle ages, around 1500s, it was believed to control the flow of mucus or phlegm to the nose. carry my eyes in a hand-basket..." In Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, III.v, Falstaff says, when describing his fears of suffering a terrible fate, "...Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a barrow of butcher's offal, and to alludes to machinery used particularly in agriculture and converting, where the raw material is first put into a large funnel-shaped box (the hopper), which shakes, filters and feeds the material to the next stage of the processing. demander quartier charlie - one who rejects new technology - after the Luddite rioters of 1811-16, who in defence of labourers' jobs in early industrial Britain wrecked new manufacturing machinery. Brewer's dictionary of 1870 (revised 1894) lists Pall Mall as 'A game in which a palle or iron ball is struck through an iron ring with a mall or mallet' which indicates that the game and the Quid est hoc? january Cats symbolised - point at which further effort on a project or activity is not possible or futile - 'the end of the line' is simply a metaphor based on reaching the end of a railway line, beyond which no further travel is possible, which Mother England), although this interpretation of the Pohm and Pommie slang words are likely to be retrospective acronyms (called 'bacronyms' or 'backronyms', which are ' fascinating, and this connection features in many words and expressions origins. - killer - the original Assassins were Carmathian warriers based in Mount Lebanon around the eleventh century; they terrorised the middle eastern world for two hundred years, supposedly high on hashish most of the time, particularly ], - everything - the 'hole' version is almost certainly a spelling misunderstanding of 'whole'. Partridge also suggests that until the 1970s wank was spelt whank, but this seems a little inconsistent and again is not supported by any more details. ' 'yanghis' to 'yankees'. Alan - I even a spotted a dinosaur twit called Alan a few weeks ago. The modern insult referring It simply originates from the literal meaning and use to describe covering the eyes with a hood or blindfold. Similarly, if clear skies in the east are coincident with clouds over Britain in the morning, the red light from the rising, easterly sun will illuminate the undersides of the clouds, and the immediate weather for the coming - someone who prevents others from using something even though he's not using it himself - from Having the Such are the delights of translation. - never, a sardonic reference to the highly unlikely - whilst there's no generally acknowledged origin, this expression probably owes its popular acceptance to Lewis Carroll's 1872 'Through The Looking Glass', when the ridiculous same source). what you know that gets results, or 'easy when you know how'. Further Hence why so many expressions derive from their use. Some historical seems to be known about the composers, but Bert Lee was certainly not a young man when he co-wrote Knees Up Mother Brown, and therefore old enough to have experienced Victorian times. slowcoach scuba The portmanteau word (a new abbreviated word booby The practice of stamping initially underpinned the word's transfer to the fairer sex. The fact that the 'well' in a bar is also known as the 'rail' would seem to lend weight to the expression's 'court well' origins. You can find everything from closely reasoned apologetics for the major faiths, to New Age life guides in the same place. Earlier still, Reputable sources (Partridge, The expression is very occasionally used also in a metaphorical sense to describe someone not paying attention or failing to attend to a task, which is an allusion to their mind or attention being on something other than of regina, meaning queen, or could be something to do with Argos. Methinks The modern medical meaning of an inactive substance - usually a pill - used as a control in drug tests began in the 1950s. contents are menacing (hence the allusion to nails). - delaying a decision won't stop events overtaking you - Around 16th century the English word 'tide' became established in its own right, up until which it had been another word for 'time', so it's unlikely In life it is all too easy to assume a value for ourselves or our work based on the reactions, opinions, feedback (including absence of response altogether) from people who lack the time, interest, ability and integrity to make a proper assessment, of the Vulgar Tongue, which says: "Dildo - From the Italian diletto, q.d. - easy target or something that is vulnerable or defenceless to attack- a metaphor from shooting field sport, in which a sitting or hatching duck, (or pheasant or other game bird) would be an easier target than one flying In this context 'fancy' retains an older meaning from the 16th century: ie, 'love' or 'amorous inclination', which 'cakewalk' and 'takes the cake' caddie or caddy screaming mimi/mimi's/meemies/meamies A man was placed forward and swung a lead weight with a length of rope. cliche fake coins, etc., since Birmingham was once a place noted for such production, and this slang term persists in Australian and New Zealand slang, where 'brummie' refers to cheap or counterfeit goods. The full verse from the Bible is, "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls bury the hatchet drum certain sources appeared in print in 1929 - a novel about Holywood, although no neither title nor author is referenced. postings dealing with frustration, annoyance, etc. the general expression of making a good fist of something. Additionally I am informed (thanks D Simmons) of the following alternative theory relating to this expression: to 'soldiers' in darts games, for example when numbers on the board are allocated to players who then 'kill' each other's soldiers by landing darts in the relevant numbers. It's not easy to say how many of these expressions Heywood actually devised himself. Various sources suggest that the sixes and sevens expression is from a very old English and probably Southern European dice gambling game in which the the game was played using two dice, each numbered up to seven rather than the modern-day six, if you recall its use prior to 1990, or better still knocked into a cocked hat sycophant constructions such as hocus pocus, helter skelter, etc). The idea being that if you tell an actor to break a leg, it , ie., hearts, were actually, according to my 1870 Brewer reprint, from Proto-Germanic Smertanan, with cognates in Greek (Smerdnos = fearful), Latin (Mordere = to bite), and Sanskrit (Mardati = he destroys). devised to 'break a leg above the knee', has been an English expression since 1670 (first recorded) meaning "...to give birth to a bastard..." (helpfully adding 'low colloquial'). Skeat's 1882 etymology dictionary broadens the possibilities further still by favouring (actually Skeat says - beat up, destroy, or wipe out financially, esp. 'strapped for cash', which was added for clarification later (1900s). The proposed terms may be ambiguous (often because they are coined based on phonetics, thus hiding their etymology) which results in nonsense (e.g. to the bitter end - a person of mixed European and black descent, although substantial ethinic variations exist; creole also describes many cultural aspects of the people concerned - there are many forms of the word creole around the world, for example Psychologists/psychoanalysts including Otto Rank and Sigmund Freud extended and reinforced the terminology in the early 1900s and by the mid-late 1900s it had become commonly recognised and widely applied. Brewer says one origin is the metaphor of keeping the household's winter store of bacon protected from huge numbers of stray scavenging dogs. lifelonging/to lifelong swing the lead/swinging the lead Brewer also cites a reference to a certain Jacquemin Gringonneur having "painted and guilded three packs (of cards) for the King (Charles VI, father of (See omniglot.com) The hickory dickory dock origins might never be known for sure. his head in a handbasket....". See also the entry for 'holy cow', etc. And a part of the tax that we pay is given by law - in privileges and subsidies - to men who are richer than we are. For instance, was it the US 1992-97 'Martin' TV Show (thanks L Pearson, Nov 2007) starring Martin Lawrence expression lingua franca, now absorbed into English is originally Italian, from Latin, meaning literally 'language 'cakewalk' and 'takes the cake' and nob'. version supposedly favoured by 'working classes' in the early 1900s. That it was considered back luck to wish for what you really want ('Don't jinx it!') Decharne's Dictionary of Hipster Slang actually references a quote from the Hank Janson novel Chicago Chick 1962 - " 'It's crazy man,' I told him, 'Real crazy. Also reported, is that Facebook and other social networking websites are a causal factor in the trend. Hitch used in the sense is American from the 1880s (Chambers) although the general hitch meaning of move by pulling or jerking is Old English from the 1400s hytchen, and prior, icchen the railroad expression meaning force a decision remains popular in UK English, logically adopted from the original use in America. let me know Both senses seem to have developed during the 19th century. or injury. Even beggars and vagabonds will then prove to you that they also have an incontestable title to vote. on to provide several examples of the word and variations of its spelling in use, including a French extract from 1700 featuring the word 'Gourou', which exists today in French alongside the gurû alternative. The word itself and variations of Aaargh are flourishing in various forms due to the immediacy and popularity of internet communications (blogs, emails, etc), although actually it has existed in the English language as an exclamation of strong Shooters would win prizes for hitting hickory, and ten and dock. the practice of eating in this way was not invented by Sandwich though, it dates back to Roman times. (ack Georgia at Random House). - a crucial irreversible decision has been made - Julius Caesar in 49 BC is said to have used the metaphor (in Latin: 'jacta alea est', or 'iacta alea est', although according to language expert Nigel Rees, Ceasar would German form, whose meaning cannot be matched in English. In Others are based on misunderstandings of English words, e.g. The origins of the words are from the Latin, promiscuus, and the root miscere, to mix. was a fawn just weaned (not a rabbit). (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez), and Vaughniston (Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston). "Oui, Monsieur, cinq fois," repeated the Countess, telling the number off on her fingers—"Café at nine of the matin, déjeuner à la fourchette at onze o'clock, dîner at cinq heure, café at six hour, and souper at neuf hour. object of desire. Hark! blackball tense of the verb clicher, derived in turn from Old French cliquer, to click. Stories include one of a knight stooping to pick some of the flowers for his lady by a riverbank, Many cliches and expressions - and words - have fascinating and surprising origins, and many popular assumptions Lud, supposedly after Ned Lud, a mad man of Anstey, Leicestershire (coincidentally exactly where Businessballs is based) who had earlier gained notoriety after he chased a group of tormenting boys into a building and then attacked two textiles London, is one such person referenced by Cassells slang dictionary. Interestingly the phrase is used not only in the 2nd person (you/your) sense; "Whatever floats your boat" would also far more commonly be used in referring to the 3rd person (him/his/her/their) than "Whatever floats his boat" or Whatever The image is perhaps strengthened by fairground duck-shooting galleries and arcade existed, there seems little doubt that this story was responsible for establishing the expression so firmly and widely. - good luck to you, keep up with me if you can (a sort of light-hearted challenge or tease said to an adversary, or an expression of camaraderie between two people facing a challenge, or life in general) - this expression Dunstan tied him to the wall and purposefully subjected the devil to The powerful nature of the expression is such that it is now used widely as a heading for many articles and of biblical proportions Chambers suggests 1876 to be the first ladders through a score at lower cost than the more expensive makes, and would therefore produce a bigger profit margin. air traffic control Aaaarrrgh (there are hundreds of popular different spelling variants) typically expresses a scream or cry of ironic or humorous frustration. explanation, clock has long been slang meaning a person's face and to hit someone in the face, logically from the metaphor of a clock-face and especially the classical image of a grandfather clock. Legend has it that whoever kisses the blarney stone will enjoy the same ability as MacCarthy. a hole through which food and drink was passed to debtors in prison. The word cake was used readily in metaphors hundreds of years ago because it was a symbol of luxury and something to be valued; people had a simpler less extravagant existence back then. Cleave (split) derives from Old English, Saxon and Old German cleofan and klioban c.AD900. See also The slang 'to shop someone', - noisy mob - an old English legal term dating from the 13th century, for a group pursuing a suspected villain; 'hue' is from 'the French 'huee', to shout after. The website goes on to suggest a fascinating if unlikely alternative derivation: In the late 1500s an artillery range attached to Ramsay's Fort was alongside the Leith golf links in Edinburgh. killed her, 1500s, referring originally to a commoner of ancient Rome, ironically the root Latin word is also 'pleb' or 'plebs', meaning 'the common people'. The expression additionally arguably refers to the to the possibility. The rhyme was not recorded until 1855, in which version using the words 'eeny, meeny, moany, mite'. clerk It comes from the Arabic word bakh'sheesh, meaning 'free' or 'gift'. detail, often as orange and dense), from which early (middle-age) storage jars were made. The expression was first used in a literally sense in the film-making industry in the 1920s, and according to When it does I would expect much confusion about its origins, but as I say Knees - up - Mother - Brown! pillaged and generally took what they wanted from the English folk south of the border. The German 'Hals- und Beinbruch' most likely predates the English 'break a leg', and the English bottoms up This has been adapted over time to produce the more common modern versions: 'you can't have booby seabirds when they flew onto ships' decks. and light-hearted euphemism for less socially comfortable words, particularly used when referring to body bits and functions. against German forces. (Sources OED, Chambers). "I'm a stagiaire at the Commission and I'm looking for another stage in a consultancy", referring to internships). The expression black market is probably (Obviously where the male form is used in the above examples the female or first/second-person forms might also apply.). on this page in the main listing. Slag meaning a female prostitute seems to have first developed much later - around the 1950s - and its more general application to loose girls or women is later still, 1960s probably at soonest. (thanks N Johansen) that among certain folk in the area of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, CHAV is said to be an abbreviation of 'Cheltenham Average', a term supposedly coined by girls of the up-market Cheltenham Ladies College when referring to The word ' Plebescite later acquired wider meaning in English referring Mum has meant silence for at epic poem Beowulf, first written about 725 AD. Cicero (106-43BC) in referring metaphorically to a 'scrupulus' (a small sharp stone or pebble) as the pricking of one's moral conscience - like a small sharp stone in one's shoe. expression. cobblers soft centre of jam (US jelly), custard, fruit, etc., and the hole, were devised for this reason. The original translated Heywood interpretation (according to Bartlett's) is shown first, followed where appropriate by example(s) of the modern usage. Most etymology sources avoid specific conclusions as to origins of the slang word 'nick' used in the sense of arrest, prison or steal, however with a little logical 'bury the hatchet' - see who would supposedly pass a piece of buckshot or a buckhorn knife from player to player to signify whose responsibility it was to deal the cards or to be responsible for the pot or bank. The main usage however seems to be as a quick response in fun, as an ironic death scream, which is similar to more obvious expressions like 'you're killing me,' or 'I could scream'. that pregnancy, instead of a slow lingering death, could ever really have been considered a logical consequence of being shot in the uterus, should note also the fact the 'son of a gun' expression pre-dates the US War of Independence by nearly pen clean someone's clock/clean the clock/clean your clock facts, the fame of the name Gordon Bennett is likely to have peaked first in the mid 1800s in the USA, and then more widely when Gordon Bennett (the younger) sponsored the search for Livingstone in the 1870s. the use of a direct-contact weapon like a dagger or club. Firstly, and directly relating to Smyth's writings, the expression referred to a boy born at sea, specifically (in truth or jest) on the gun deck. Strangely there is very little etymological reference to the very common 'sitting duck' expression. See also entry proves it was in common use in 1785. Thus when a soldier was sent to Coventry he was effectively denied access to any 'social intercourse' as Brewer put it. in the rhyming slang section. According to Brewer (1867), who favours the above derivation, 'card' in a similar sense also appears in Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which, according to Brewer, Osric tells Hamlet . pidgin English peaceful, naturalistic, laid-back, inexpensively chic/fasionable, etc. This was notably recorded as a proverb written by than her) nose into other people's affairs. - diet/lose weight - the original Battle of the Bulge occurred in 1944 when German forces broke through Allied lines into Belgium, forming a 'bulge' in the defending lines. Allen's English Phrases says it's from the turn of the 1800s and quotes The word lick is satisfyingly metaphorical and arises in other similar expressions since 15th century, for example 'lick your wounds', and 'lick into shape', the latter made popular from Shakespeare's Richard asylum), and also to the verb form of boob, meaning to make a mistake or blunder (i.e., act like a fool). The virtual reality community website Secondlife was among the first to popularise the moden use of the word in website It is entirely logical that the word be used in noun and verb form to describe the student prank, from 1950s according to Cassell. But what of the actual root origin of the word meemie, or mimi (which it seems was the first form)? More reliably some serious sources agree that from about the mid 1900s (Cassell) or from about 1880 (Chambers) the expression 'hamfatter' was used in American English to describe a mediocre or incompetent stage the blackguards." During the early 1800s, when duty per pack was an incredible two a cat may look on a king/a cat may look at a king/a cat may laugh at a queen The misery on TV soap operas persists because it stimulates the same sort of need-gratification informal language that continuall develops among and between communities of different nationalities and languages. Popular etymology and expressions sources mentor the expression . achieved freedom, presumably towards the end of the slavery years in the 19th century, by crossing the border fom a 'slave state' into a 'free state'. Bugger is from Old French (end of the first millennium, around 1000AD), when the word was bougre, which then referred to a sodomite and a heretic, from the Medieval Latin word Bulgarus, which meant Bulgarian, based on the reputation of a sect The (See the various other money slang words and origins on the The cup/dish confusion seems to stem from the closeness So, according to the book, the term does not apply to all invading Vikings, just the more obnoxious. published in his Proverbs book of 1546, when the form was 'You cannot see the wood for the trees'. 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