seriously...when someone says "...all the way from hell to breakfast" how far is that?
where the heck did that idiom come from in the first place?!
2006-08-31 12:51:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
when in a war setting the folks would eat after the enemy stoped their probe attacks near morning light so they made it out alive from hell to breakfast like maybe the marines in korea
2006-08-31 12:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard that but I love researching word & phrase origins. So I did a little....It means a far distance...as in traveled from hell to breakfast or scattered from hell to breakfast. The only guess I found on any of the origin sites was on PHRASEFINDER.com
"My guess is that it refers to cattle who are scattered so far that it will take all night and until breakfast the next day to round them up."
I'm w/ you....Still doesn't make much sense but there it is !
2006-08-31 20:14:33 · answer #2 · answered by Stiletto ♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(1) It is the name of a country music CD.
(2) It is the title of a book (actually, two different books by different authors).
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From "Hell To Breakfast" puts together some of the greatest Texas singer/songwriters and gives you an album that many people would stick into their player and listen to for weeks on end. The pure honesty in all of these songs just really amazes me compared to some of the more mainstream side of Country Music.
2006-08-31 20:07:53 · answer #3 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the other way around. The trip ain't really that far. At this point anyway.
Probably one of those rotund military mess sergeants. Garlic ain't enough they gotta add verbatim to it.
2006-08-31 19:56:53 · answer #4 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a new one to me and being from the south we have all kinds of odd sayings.
2006-08-31 19:57:56 · answer #5 · answered by Proud to be an American 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, I'm not sure but I wonder if the mode of transportation is that danged ol' handbasket.
2006-08-31 19:57:41 · answer #6 · answered by northernbornsoutherner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of it.
2006-08-31 19:56:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask em what kinda dope they were smoking when they came up with that.
2006-08-31 19:59:24 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ Lips of Morphine ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋