Common words or phrases you dont understand!!!

The_B_Man

back in the day when it was still a sin to say the lords name in vain, ie jesus christ, people musta tried to find an alternative, in the same way as people would say "sugar" instead of "sh*t". thats wat i tihnk anyway.

Will Scarlett

When a bloke says he scored with a girl what exactly has happened?

Robbo

Will Scarlett wrote:

When a bloke says he scored with a girl what exactly has happened?

She played a threaded through ball and he slipped one low and hard past the keeper. Next please.

Trinity

what does atari jaguar mean?

GerryRyan

ThatGuy wrote:

Worked on the buildings for 2 summers - and was always confused by the phrase 'How's your father?'

Not the phrase itself, but the context it was used in.
e.g. "Throw us that 'how's your father' " when referring to a hammer or shovel.

Can't think of another example right now, but confusing all the same.

Just found me an explanation of the phrase: http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/qfather.htm

abetarrush

its an old console

Karoma

Moved to Linguistics & Etymology.
Enjoy!!!1!

Scraggs

Trinity1 wrote:

what does atari jaguar mean?

clickeh

Wertz

Karoma wrote:

Moved to Linguistics & Etymology.
Enjoy!!!1!

What the hell do languages and insects have to do with each other???

oscarBravo

NoDayBut2Day wrote:

I thought "meh" was kind of like an "oh, i don't care" type of attitude thing. i don't know... haha.

Immortalised by Lisa Simpson.

Lisa: But Dad, we're the MTV generation. We experience neither highs nor lows.

Homer: Really? What's that like?

Lisa: Meh.

_Whimsical_

What does the expression " Cheap at half the price mean"? Surely everything is cheap at half the price... or am I missing something ?

hullaballoo

A house, say, would be rather pricey at half the price. Or, so I'd think.

One that used to bug the hell out of me was, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth".

I worked that one out, so now the one I don't get is, "same difference". It sounds so stupid, but makes sense at the same time.

Faith

Where does "the whole nine yards" come from? Or "a can of worms"? I mean, are worms particularly agile and likely to go jumping all over the place?

Scraggs

Faith wrote:

Where does "the whole nine yards" come from? Or "a can of worms"? I mean, are worms particularly agile and likely to go jumping all over the place?

The whole nine yards??


Well my interpretation of 'can of worms' is that when you open a can of worms its like a big solid [icky] mass of worms all knotted up in each other and like a situation where you'd use that phrase its complex and hard to unravel/solve. No idea how accurate that is. Now I've to go erase all fishing trip memories *shudders*

tbh

chilly wrote:

What does the expression " Cheap at half the price mean"? Surely everything is cheap at half the price... or am I missing something ?

it's a piss-take of "cheap at twice the price" i.e. you are ripping me off

FlutterinBantam

hullaballoo wrote:

A house, say, would be rather pricey at half the price. Or, so I'd think.

One that used to bug the hell out of me was, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth".

I worked that one out, so now the one I don't get is, "same difference". It sounds so stupid, but makes sense at the same time.

"Same difference" was discussed on earlier threads.
It would appear to be a derivation of "same but different",which would imply a similar result from different methods.

Wertz

Okay here's one I never got and I hear it used a fair bit.

"He was sold a pup"

I know what it means, I just don't know why it means what it does.
Anyone?

tbh

Wertz wrote:

Okay here's one I never got and I hear it used a fair bit.

"He was sold a pup"

I know what it means, I just don't know why it means what it does.
Anyone?

It comes from the days when farmers would bring their produce to market in a sack. Dodgy market dealers would replace a piglet in a sack with a cat or a puppy - and hope the customers wouldn't spot it until it was too late. Incidentally, the phrase "to let the cat out of the bag" comes from the same practice.

Wertz

That's always annoyed me, thanks for clearing it up. Interesting one on the cat out of the bag, too.