“I’m gonna hit you so hard, it’ll make your ancestors dizzy!”
Heard by fly on wall:
He fluffed his Garfield?
(ten points to whoever gets that ref)
Take him on a trip to Knuckle Junction?
Kick him right in the old (Lyndon Baines) Johnson?
Sounds very descriptive, even explosive, like maybe a terrorist threat. Does he even have a petard to be hoisted by? Let’s see if he could. I’ll try not to be too fastidious.
Petard - 1. Charge d’explosif placee dans une enveloppe, qu’on utilise pour detruire des obstacles, comme dispositif de signalisation acoustique ou en pyrotechnie. 2. Bruit, tapage. 3. Revolver. 4. Derriere (This one wasn’t in the Webster’s Collegiate.)
Aha! With no.4 we have something that he has (or is) that he could be hoisted by, but it loses something of the idiom in the translation.
peter - faire un pet, lacher du vent
pet - Gaz intestinal qui s’echappe de l’anus avec bruit (noise)
Like Lucy he could have given him 5 good reasons.
Flogged his dolphin?
The third return on google gives us the Straight Dope.
Commandeer? For crying out loud, Haig believed (wrongly) that he was in charge for a few hours until Vice President Bush got back to the White House.
In those few hours, what exactly did Haig try to do? NOTHING, except try to reassure the public that everything was okay. For THAT, you act as if he staged a freaking coup.
Henry must have been cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
He probably threatened Kissinger with fifty lashes with a wet noodle.
Or a fish-smacking.
He threatened to open up a can of whup-jaw?