i know it's just a saying but how did that come about?
2007-01-20 18:37:36 · 6 answers · asked by fOnCuSeD cHiLd 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
The first is an adaptation of the London Cockney phrase "to sweat like a bull", first recorded about 1880. The original makes sense -- bulls sweat -- but pigs don't so no one really knows how that saying came into play.
2007-01-20 21:03:26 · answer #1 · answered by Twisted Maggie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because sweating makes you smell, and pigs smell!
2007-01-21 02:43:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when u sweat it makes u musty which means smell. Pigs do stink though, they dont smell beautiful like perfume. lmao.
2007-01-21 02:45:27 · answer #3 · answered by LaLa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandma said that she always used to say "Your swetaing like our pigs!" or "I'm sweating like a pig" meaning "I smell horrible!"...she always used to have showers after that too! so im guessing it meant "Pigs smell, and when we start sweating alot, we start smelling like pigs!"
2007-01-21 04:30:08 · answer #4 · answered by ♫♥♫Teagan♦Smiley♫♥♫ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a figure of speech
2007-01-21 04:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by Bean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a phrase used as a joke:D
lighten up!!!! :P
2007-01-21 04:09:20 · answer #6 · answered by bubby 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋