For humor or meaning...
- If you know their origins, please tell, some are quite interesting...
2007-01-29 07:44:07 · 5 answers · asked by Alter Evermore 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
"In Like Flynn"
Dates back to 1945, refering to how easily movie star Errol Flynn could get women into bed with him.
Pig in a Poke
In medieval times, farmers would bring piglets to market in burlap bags called 'pokes". Unscrupulous farmers would substitute stray cats for the piglets as a way to dupe their customers. So a "pig in a poke" is used to refer to something that isn't really what you've been told it is. This of course leads us to... Pig in a poke.
2007-01-29 08:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by endrshadow 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ðе пÑÑ
а не пеÑа
(nye pu-KHA nye pye-rah)
"no fluff, no feathers." A Russian Idiom for "good luck" (the response is к ÑоÑÑÑ (kch-OR-tu) which means "to the devil"
"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts", refering to the Iliad, when a character warns his fellow Trojans not to accept the Trojan horse into the city.
2007-01-29 08:53:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being sold a bill of goods... meaning you bought something unaware or sight unseen. I believe this came from people who voted for Clinton.
2007-01-29 08:35:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
elephant in the room
800 lb gorilla in the room
hot potato
pink elephant
2007-01-29 07:48:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
" going off half ****** " and "flash in the pan" came from problems in the firing mechanism of black powder firearms.
2007-01-29 08:09:39 · answer #5 · answered by john c 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋