What do the following cliches mean?
a) Hair of the dog
b) Silver tongue
The hair of the dog refers to hangover treatments. The hair of the dog (that bit you) means to have a drink of whatever felled you the night before.
Silver tongue: speaking with a- to be glib, a real bullshit artist.
Like a poster.
Then we’ll turn our tommy guns
on the screaming ravaged nuns
and the peoples voice will be the only sound.
-P. Sky
Hair of the Dog: alcoholic drinks; more specifically, the same type you were drinking to abuse the night before. Fully, it’s “hair of the dog that bit you”; the alcohol last night is the stuff that “bit” you and made you feel crummy. The “hair” is just a little bit of what you were drinking. The theory is that drinking a little of what gave you a hangover the morning after will make you feel better. Cecil debated whether this helps or not in a column that I’m too lazy to search for.
Do you want to know what they mean or where they originated?
Hair of dog is not the whole cliche. It’s the hair of the dog that bit you. Meaning if you’re hung over(bit by a dog) then have another drink(have some of its hair).
Silver tongue is someone who is glib. Or the six million dollar porno star.
Well hair of the dog is a euphemism use to help cure a hang over…ie take a drink of whatever you had to drink the night before thus “taking a bit of the hair of the dog that bit you” or something like that.
Silver tongue I suppose means to be very a very glib and fast talker who posesses the charisma to make people believe him.
“I think it speaks to the duality of man sir.”
(private Joker in Full Metal Jacket)
Hair of the dog: The full expression is ‘the hair of the dog that bit you’. Long ago it was believed that you needed some part of a thing that had injured you to cure you. One dogbite remedy involved applying a poultice that included hair from the dog in question. The expression specifically refers to treating a hangover with a drink the next morning (or afternoon, if it was a classic bender).
Silver tongue: WAG here, but I would imagine that it is related to the easy analogy between words that flow out smoothly and quickly to mercury, otherwise known as quicksilver.
Five way simulpost!
So, are 5 simulposts with the same/similar information some kind of record?
Well, I couldn’t say, but at least we’ve cleared up the controversy that NickyLarson, AWB, Biggirl, aha, and I are the same person.
Here’s the link to Cecil’s hangover column. Oddly enough, I posted it in a different thread just this morning.
I must ask: Being a relatively new little nephew to Uncle Cecil’s Message Boards, does the term “double posting” refer to:
a) posting the same reply within a thread
b) posting the same question as another poster on the same message board
c) “a” as well as “b”
d) an earring with two posts (ha-ha)
Obviously, in this context, the meaning is clear, but could it also mean “b”?
IMHO: Moreoften, I have heard of a gilded tongue. I took this to mean basically the same thing. I base this upon the phrase “gilding the lilly”. To you posters, is a gilded tongue the same as a silver tongue?
A “Double Post” is when a single person posts the same message twice. Usually these are identical and seem to be caused by glitches in their browser or in the board software somewhere.
A “Simulpost” is when two or more people answer a question at more-or-less the same time. This happens when they check the thread, don’t see any answers and answer it themselves, not knowing that three other people are typing in their answers at that same moment.
I’m not sure if a five-way simulpost is a record, but five is the highest I’ve seen.
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