Till the cows come home.
I’m lead to believe that owlstretchingtime’s syllable key may have gotten out of adjustment. If so he’ll be the last to know and the first to deny it. Might not be, but it does happens.
Nothing happens, nothing happens.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jes1.htm is the link for an explanation of Jesus H. Christ. By going to the home page of World Wide Words, many etymolgical conundrums can be demystified.
Anu Garg’s website link is: http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/ for more on words and origins.
LOL. I don’t know if you did that intentionally or not.
This is a Snoop Dogg variation on old gypsy and street speak. So when he says “thats off the hizzle for shizzle dizzle”, that translates as : “thats off the hook for sure dog”. “Shizzle” could also mean “shit” - confused? Pretty much the only way you can tell what the first consenant stands for is context, or just to listen to him speak “english” enough to figure it out.
So your sentence doesn’t make much sense in any form.
Get it my nizzle?
(Yes, what you think “nizzle” means, but in a good way not a hate way.)
That makes perfect sense. “Pith” is defined as vigor. And and old definition of vinegar is, oddly enough, vigor. So someone full of pith and vinegar is vigorous. “Taking the pith” out of them would pretty much equal what is meant by “taking the piss” out of them.
BTW…SNAFU means Situation Normal All [Fouled] Up
The H is a short for ‘aitch’. You would say, “Damn, I aitch”, before you started to scratch. Which is the way they talked in them days, not knowing the Queen’s English, nor the Queen for that matter.
Now Jesus was born in a manger habitated by the local barnyard crowd: goats, chickens, cows, wise men, drummer boys, talking sheep, and travelling salesmen, etc. Because of this he was afflicted with fleas from an early age. Now Jesus could perform miracles and from time to time he would zap all the fleas that he could see saying, “Begone foul Money Changers!”. Money Changers being the name for fleas in that area at that time. In any case, he could never get the ones on his back. So, he would flail around trying to scratch the itch he could never reach. He’d end up spinning around in the temple knocking over tables in his distress and scattering the change from the pizza delivery boy. His apostles would find this funny and call him “Aitch” because of it. Then they would laugh saying, “Why don’t you take a bath, Aitch?!” Jesus would get mad because they well knew that everytime he tried to step into a bath he’d end up walking right over it being made of wood* **. So, he’d give them boils for their jocularity. Thus the first curse was heard, “Jesus Aitch Christ!”, from Judas as the apostles sat down to dinner for the last time, Judas having an especially bad case. And thus the 8th letter of the Alpahabet was named after Jesus.
- which gave rise to the myth that Jesus could walk on water. ‘Float on water’ would be a more accurate term.
** Jesus’s father, Joseph, was a carpenter. It is interesting to note that Joseph is a derivative of the German name, “Gepeto”. ‘Pinochio’ is, in fact, the long lost account of Jesus’s youth!
:dubious:
Interestingly, I’ve run into that sort of conversation about five-ten years ago. It started as carnie talk. “Loozzis azzis thizzle chizzle’s tizzles.” That sort of thing. A way to tell each other stuff that they couldn’t say openly in front of the marks. Where I encountered it was in wrestling and carnivals, I suspect it hit the music industry at some point as well.
I’m not exactly qualified to answer this, but here it goes. You bring cows out to the field in the morning to graze and you have to bring them back again in the evening. The cows won’t go anywhere unless you bring them, so to say “You’ll be waiting till the cows come home” is to say “forever”.
here is a cute one, not really slang since my dad is the only one i’ve ever heard use it:
cheese ‘n’ rice -> jesus christ
I always took WAG as “Wager a guess”
I thought I read somewhere the same thing about brass monkeys being where the cannon balls were stored on ships. Not sure though.
i knew i saw this somewhere: snopes on brass monkey
and i thought WAG was wager a as opposed to wild ass also, but wild ass makes much more since in the contexts i’ve seen.
I think that’s part of a campaign trying to encourage younger people to vote. Y’know, something like, “If you don’t exercise your voting rights, think of all the crazy things those old folks could do! They might take away your booze!”
Here’s the tale I heard on 'til the cows come home. I was taught this in the 7th grade, and it might be true. In mountainous places such as Switzerland, cattle could be led up the mountainside in the springtime when the snow melted and the vegetation started to grow. They, and some herdsmen, would stay up there for the free grass as long as the weather permitted. So, if you wanted to talk to Harvey, the herder, you’d have to go up the hill or wait. But be aware, you’ll be waiting a few months 'til the cows come home.
Plausible? I dunno. I not a Swiss farmer. That’s the way it was told to me.
There’s been some plausible explanations so far for this one, but I have always used it the way my mother explained it to me: we didn’t own any cows, so to say something was going to take until the cows came home meant it was going to take forever, or never going to happen.
I have taken my medicine (as manufactured by Youngs in Wandsworth) and I can assure you that it is all genuine slang:
to deconstruct:
Originally posted by owlstretchingtime
it’s the queens innit? As spoken in Sarf. [South London, as referred to by it’s natives, and the slang therein is also known as Sarf - as opposed to Norf innit]
Blimey are you a bit dagenham [Look at a tube map and you will find a tube station called Barking, and beyond that - Dagenham, hence someone who is really mad is beyond Barking ie Dagenham]? i know most lemons [Lemon Curds - birds, blokes are fridges - fridge freezers] are a bit doolally [mad - from the location of the lunatic asylum in India] (not to mention completely radio [radio rentals - mental]), but strewth [gosh], ask your spars [friends - west indian slang] when you’re down the nuclear [nuclear sub - pub, rub a dub is obsolete] having a few don revies [bevvies - now more usually brittneys - brittney speers= beers], they’ll give you the coo [the low down - again from the W Indies].
Not too difficult is it?
I’ll take a WAG that OST was seeing if anyone else understood this, not asking for an explanation for his own benefit…
If a lady doesn’t wish to go “all the way” but doesn’t want her beloved to go entirely without erotic reward for his attentions, and lose interest in her, she may allow him “fingers and tops” or “tops and fingers”, namely, to enjoy her breasts and digitally explore her intimate regions .
just so. Slang from my (distant) youth.
I’ve never heard anyone say that. Besides, the cow jumped over the moon; Jack is the one who jumped over the candlestick. Have you heard more than one person reference cows and candlesticks?
Would someone elaborate on “word” please? My almost 12 year old and his cronies say this to one another in greeting and I don’t have a CLUE what it means.
They say it as a greeting now? It used to be something akin to “amen to that”:
“I think the latest Macy Gray is tres’ funky!”
“Word!”