Origin of weird sayings?

[EMDDIESEL]

I feel like Doc posting this, but i was inspired by him to come out and ask a strange question. Where did these sayings begin and why?? Any ones you know?



"Its a piece of cake"

"Easy as pie"

"Like Gangbusters"

"Like nobodys buissness"



There are alot of others that i cant fugure out, i also cant remember them right now.

 

[Whitmore]

hummmm

lets see here



easy as a piece of cake, I have never baked a cake and prolly couldnt so thats hard for me



easy as pie,,,,,,same as above for me



Like gangbusters ... ..... I dont even know them



Like nobodies business ... ... ... If it is nobody than they cant have a business . :{

 

[tgbol]

How about "a t!t in the wringer' and who was the first to find out how much it hurt.

 

[illflem]

There's a bunch like piece of cake and easy as pie. Falling off a log, shooting fish in a barrel, a no brainier, shooting ducks on a pond, hot knife though butter, child's play, etc. They all just mean something that is too easy to do, like eating cake and pie.

 

[Whitmore]

hey

I like eating pie

 

['956Wheel]

Ya darn tootin' / He!! Bent for leather / ---kin' A / cut to the chase / don't know wether to I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER or go blind / dressed to the nine / whole nine yards / saved your bacon.



I like listening to the old timers, they got them.



Mike

 

[Sageair]

Whole nine yards

EW EW EW !! I know the origin of this one, and it's a goody!! When they first started putting fifty cailber machine guns in fighter airplanes the belts of ammo were 27 feet long. The first time that a wingman got revenge on an enemy aircraft for shooting down his flight leader he poured every round into him. In other words he gave him the WHOLE NINE YARDS. You're welcome.

 

[swexlin]

OK -



"Pulling out all the stops" - as in going all out - refers to the big "full organ" sound one hears in a large cathedral - most of the "stops" for the ranks of pipes are pulled (I know, because I am (was) an organist).



"Feet to the fire", "let's nail 'im", "grill 'im", etc. - usually used in reference to interrogations" -all of these refer to torture, of course, which was used to extract information



I'm sure I'll think of more.

 

[Sageair]

Another good one. The throttles on older multi-engined aircraft had balls on the end of the levers. If you pushed the throttles all the way toward the firewall for full throttle you were "BALLS TO THE WALL"

 

[nickleinonen]

" ---kin' A "



i much perfer the fu@kin' EH!!!

 

[bighammer]

Dumber than a box o' rocks.



As useless as tits on a bull.









Just a couple I heard a lot. They must mean SOMETHIN'

 

[Royk]

cut to the chase

Think of a movie. Skip all the boring stuff and get to the chase scene. In other words, hurry up and get to the good part.



-Roy

 

[lgibson]

"Rule of thumb"



It comes from a law that was used many years ago. The law states that you could not beat your wife with anything bigger (diameter) than your thumb. It was ok to beat your wife with a stick as long as it was not thicker than your thumb.

 

[The patriot]

"I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER or get off the pot" is one of my favorites.

I use "saved your bacon" at work a lot.

Eric

 

[Whitmore]

My Favorite

"Run Jump Or Get The Heck Outa The Way "

 

[RHARVEY]

Colder than a witch's ***



:--) :--) :--)



Rick

 

[Texas Diesel]

EM, read away!!



http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/index.html



Now, find the answer to this:



The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind...

 

[nh2112]

One of my personal favorites is "I'm so hungry, my @$$hole's trying to eat my underwear!"