I’ve used it to connote “It will make you wild with glee” or “It will have you deliriously pleased.” Like a Dizzy Gillespie record or a roast-beef hero sandwich from that little place down on Fifth. And, for some reason, everyone seems to understand what I mean.
But I only remember seeing the phrase once in print, and that was in a 1960s underground comic by Spain Rodriguez, in which it was written out as “It’ll snap yer stix.”
IS this a real slang term? Or have Spain and I made something up between us? Has anyone else ever heard it used?
I’ve never heard that expression before, but since I was just there earlier and digging into etymologies, I tried a site-search, then a web search, at www.dictionary.com and found two instances of this phrase.
One came up in connection to making one’s own “Pick-up Sticks” (???):
(under Go: Step 1)
Leaving aside questions of “why”, here the reference is clearly mechanical, yet does seem vaguely suggestive (to me) of the metaphorical idiom you’re asking about.
The other occurs in a completely different context:
(towards bottom of page, link/header for August 1998)
and is clearly an idiomatic usage but with a different connotation, I think, than your usage. The exact meaning, though, seems uncertain and the phrase isn’t used in the linked article itself.
Cool phrase, though. I’ll watch this thread for more developments!