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the expression...the whole nine yards came from?....
someone told me last night... just wanna see if anyone knows.... goodmornin'...teasingbrunette |
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Wasn't it the length of the ammo belt on a machine gun on a WWI fighter plane?
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Heres one.. minding your p's and q's meant minding your pints and quarts.
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deluxe..that's true....
I had used it in refernce to...a wedding as in...they went the whole nine yards....had no idea that it came from war plane ammo! cute one earthy! |
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deluxe..that's true.... I had used it in refernce to...a wedding as in...they went the whole nine yards....had no idea that it came from war plane ammo! 
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trying to think of a saying....what about this one...
no use crying over spilt milk?..like who really does that anyway? or a penny for your thoughts?....what would that penny be nowadays? 
teasingbrunette |
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"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
On a ship, they'd stack there cannon balls in a pyarmid shape. The base were they stacked them was made of brass. When it got cold, the brass base contracts, causing the stacked balls to fall off there base........... 
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trying to think of a saying....what about this one... no use crying over spilt milk?..like who really does that anyway? or a penny for your thoughts?....what would that penny be nowadays?
teasingbrunette Like anything else you can buy, it depends on how valuable the thoughts are... 
It's raining cats and dogs =o) |
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A "bolt" of material for making clothes, etc. comes in 9 yard lengths.
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Ok, curious about this one:
Horsefeathers. My granddad used to say that alot. |
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Ok, curious about this one: Horsefeathers. My granddad used to say that alot. Well that was a more polite way to say "horseshi!" |
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trying to think of a saying....what about this one... no use crying over spilt milk?..like who really does that anyway? The phrase became popular in America during the Great Depression because the price of milk as a commodity had fallen so low due to its overabundance relative to demand, that dairy farmers were subsidized by the state to destroy their surplus in order to bring prices back up to a profitable level. The destruction of a commodity in order to alleviate the crisis of overproduction would be, in any system other than capitalist enterprise, utterly absurd. Hence the need for propaganda and a cute, memorable idiom like this one. or
a penny for your thoughts?....what would that penny be nowadays?
teasingbrunette This expression dates from the 1500s and was in John Heywood's 1546 collection of proverbs. |
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Where did "cute as a button" come from??
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Where did "cute as a button" come from?? |
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Edited by
Mr_Music
on
Fri 08/21/09 02:33 PM
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Where did "cute as a button" come from?? Depending on the source, it can be from a couple of different origins: One of them is, it actually has nothing to do with a button as in a button on a shirt. The button quail is a very small gray super, super fluffy squishy looking bird. People used to say "cute as a button", meaning "cute as a button quail", because the bird was considered so adorable. Another one is (and this one is a bit more racy), the origin of "cute as a button" originally comes from the port city of Amsterdam, specifically during the tulip/merchant boom several centuries ago. A button was a specific type of prostitute, licenced by the city, to perform oral sex on wayfaring sailors in port to "blow their wad", literally and metaphorically speaking. As it was rude during that time to shout out at random women, "Hey, I want a blow job!", a code was gradually put in place. A would-be merchant marine would walk up to a woman and exclaim "Well, aren't you cute as a button!". If the woman was a licensed street walker, should would respond with a price, and usually would lead the would-be blowee down an alley, leading to the now defunct phrase "Fat cats don't walk down alleys early." So now you know. I'll be here all week. Tip your waitress, and try the veal. |
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OK,
Tickled pink??? There use to be an old saying " you're so stupid, I could sell you dirt" Now everyone goes to Walmart to buy bags of dirt!? They call it potting soil.. but its still dirt!!! |
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OK, Tickled pink??? There use to be an old saying " you're so stupid, I could sell you dirt" Now everyone goes to Walmart to buy bags of dirt!? They call it potting soil.. but its still dirt!!! This is just a guess..but I'm wondering if it comes from the idea that when you get tickled you blush? I know thats what happens to me, I get to laughing too much my cheeks get red O.o |
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OK, Tickled pink??? There use to be an old saying " you're so stupid, I could sell you dirt" Now everyone goes to Walmart to buy bags of dirt!? They call it potting soil.. but its still dirt!!! Tickled pink Meaning To be delighted. Origin tickled pinkThe tickling here isn't the light stroking of the skin - it's the figurative sense of the word that means 'to give pleasure or gratify'. The tickling pink concept is of enjoyment great enough to make the recipient glow with pleasure - (see also in the pink). That meaning of tickling has found its way into several phrases relating to pleasure, dating back to the early 17th century. - Samuel Hieron, Works, 1617: "Well might they haue their eares ticled with some pleasing noise." - Rollin's Ancient History, 1734: "Eating in Egypt was designed not to tickle the palate but to satisfy the cravings of nature." - Nathaniel Hawthone's Passages from the French and Italian note-books, 1864: "Something that thrilled and tickled my heart with a feeling partly sensuous and partly spiritual." - St. Nicholas (magazine for boys and girls), 1907: "I'm tickled to death to find some one with what they call human emotions." and, finally, in 1910, in an Illinois' newspaper - The Daily Review, in a piece titled 'Lauder Tickled at Change', we have: "Grover Laudermilk was tickled pink over Kinsella's move in buying him from St. Louis." The inclusion of the term in a newspaper, without any explanation of meaning, indicates that the writer expected readers would already be familiar with it. It seems that that phrase didn't originate much before 1910 though. There are many references to it in print soon after that date, but I can find none earlier. |
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