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You are correct sir, now that you've said it, it all comes back.

Not sure about the salt.. but Marry poppins had a better idea.. a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down :D

so, this is kind of like inception for me.. I've always attributed "humbug" (as have many of us) to scrooge.. but I've never thought to dig deeper until now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug
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Very interesting....I always associate it with Scrooge.

I had a customer email me last week and call me "The Bee's Knees" :)

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-bees-knees.html
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informative and fun, great guys. how does the cats ass play in this, I hear this quite a bit and I really have no idea, I looked it up, it has interesting meanings.
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Not sure about cats ass but hear people say that they don't give a rats ass all the time :)
There seems to be many ideas of origin...like this one:

http://www.answers.com/Q/Where_did_I_do ... _come_from
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heh, I enjoyed the info. I use to have a rat as a pet. I think I was about the age of 13 when I first heard the saying. I like the pic of the rat with the long twirling straw. looks like he is sipping a tropical drink :lol:
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Just said this yesterday and made me go look it up....I love this forum :)
Although not much info on it, it was still interesting.

For crying out loud

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde ... 950AAmI7tJ
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my father always said this phrase, tender as an old whores heart
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For "Crying out loud" is rooted other places as for "Christ our lord" and was shifted to prevent one from "taking the lords name in vain. Just like people say "geeze" .. or "holy jeepers" and "oh Gosh" instead of "oh god"..

Note the number of letters in each place.. "crying out loud" and "christ our lord" are the same number of letters per word.. :D
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Like how "cor blimey" was a polite/less blasphemous version of "God blind me".
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That makes total sense guys.
Chaos...could not find a history on that phrase.
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how about the meaning Wizard Zedd, can you figure out the meaning.
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Hmmm...if I had to guess I would say that her heart had taken so many beatings that it became tender.

I've always wondered where jaywalking or jaywalk came from. I looked it up and found 2 different answers - which one do you think is the true origin?

First one:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... aywalking/

Second:
Meaning: One who crosses the street in a reckless or illegal manner
History: Jay birds that traveled outside of the forest into urban areas often became confused and unaware of the potential dangers in the city – like traffic. Amused by their erratic behavior, people began using the term “Jaywalker” to describe someone who crossed the street irresponsibly.
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In french, there is no word to translate jaywalk.
The best translation for "jaywalk" in french means "crossing the street out of the nails".
Long ago in France, there was no zebra, no paint across the streets, they used large head nails to mark crossings on paved streets.
Paved streets are gone in Paris since May 68.
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interesting story on Jaywalking, so at night time would they call it owl walking?

WZ, you're close to the meaning "tender as an old whores heart" which my father said all the time when he ate a good tender\juicy piece of meat. the old whore had been with so many men that she understands a man who she likes, she's been through hell and knows how to treat a man softly that she has fallen in love with.
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the biggest scapegoat would have to have been Jesus.
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butter makes everything better :lol:
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Was reading a book and ran across the phrase "toe the line". I always thought it was tow the line :) Learn something new everyday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
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:lol: as long as it is not walk the plank

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looked for "catch phrase" but there wasn't much to go on.. however I did another search using "coin a phrase" instead..

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... in-phrase/
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heh, I like the spin, the word "phrase" was coined :lol:

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Cows - Interesting read on coining a phrase.
Chaos - Dropping clangers...you may find yourself in the Danger Zone :)
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:lol:
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Here's an old one...goody goody two shoes.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/goody-two-shoes.html
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Goody Goody and Willy Wonka to you :)
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Guess we are all part of the rat race in one way or another

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_race
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One of my favourite words is 'Klempt' (nothing to do with the German surname).
It means being very hungry.
For years i thought it was my mum's own word, until i heard a work colleague who comes from a neighbouring town use it.
I've never heard it, or heard of it being used outside the northwest of England.

A sentence might read:- "Gonna get some scran, coz i'm proper klempt.".
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I've so many so many terms, kelpt off koft mittem sum other brat frucken, slitz grutz frutz
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