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2007-09-03 22:54:22 · 10 answers · asked by Chav Princess 7 in Entertainment & Music Polls & Surveys

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I have not heard that said for ages hun!!! Think some of my clients are a bit out of whack today.... they all seem to be on a mission to annoy the hell out of me with stupid requests pmsl!!!

2007-09-03 23:03:37 · answer #1 · answered by Maria S © 7 · 1 0

Bonjour madam

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-out2.htm

Whack started life in the eighteenth century. It was probably an imitative noise, or perhaps derived from the older thwack, also imitative. The adjective wacky, for somebody or something that is odd, crazy or peculiar (nowadays in a mildly funny way), may come from whack, in that somebody who was crazy behaved as though he had been hit about the head.

The noun developed a number of subsidiary senses. At one time, it could mean a share in a distribution, a portion; this sense was originally thieves’ cant — Francis Grose, in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue of 1785, has “Whack, a share of a booty obtained by fraud” (could physical violence have been involved in some cases?). British English has a couple of phrases that retain that sense. One is pay one’s whack, to pay one’s agreed contribution to shared expenses. Another is top whack, or full whack, for the maximum price or rate for something (“if you go to that shop, you’ll pay top whack”).

There are some other old figurative senses, including a bargain or agreement (which evolved out of the idea of a share), and an attempt at doing something (“I’ll take a whack at that job”). These are mostly American, and it was in the US that the sense you refer to first appeared, in the latter part of the nineteenth century. There seems to have been a phrase in fine whack during that century, meaning that something was in good condition or excellent fettle. (It appears in a letter by John Hay, President Lincoln’s amanuensis, dated August 1863, which describes the President: “The Tycoon is in fine whack. I have rarely seen him more serene and busy. He is managing this war, the draft, foreign relations, and planning a reconstruction of the Union, all at once”.) It doesn’t often turn up in writing, though, so there’s some doubt how widespread it was.

To be out of whack would then have meant the opposite — that something wasn’t on top form or working well. It was first applied to people with ailments (“My back is out of whack”). In the early years of the twentieth century it started to refer to mechanisms. It might be that the sense was influenced by the idea that faulty mechanisms responded to a quick thwack.


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2007-09-04 06:20:44 · answer #2 · answered by jam 5 · 0 1

something that is not moving and is stuck, but gets moving when whack is given, A good whack keeps goat moving

2007-09-04 06:31:31 · answer #3 · answered by krishprud@yahoo.co.in_KISHORLAL 6 · 0 0

The same thing that makes Whacko Jacko whack!

2007-09-04 05:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by Mercia L 5 · 1 0

You listen to too much Shania Twain!!!


Black eyes, I don't need 'em
Blue tears, gimme freedom

Positively never goin' back
**I won't live where things are so out of whack**
No more rollin' with the punches
No more usin' or abusin'

I'd rather die standing
Than live on my knees
Begging please-no more

Black eyes-I don't need 'em
Blue tears-gimme freedom
Black eyes-all behind me
Blue tears'll never find me now

Definitley found my self esteem
Finally-I'm forever free to dream
No more cryin' in the corner
No excuses-no more bruises

I'd rather die standing
Than live on my knees
Begging please-no more

Black eyes-I don't need 'em
Blue tears-gimme freedom
Black eyes-all behind me
Blue tears'll never find me now

I'd rather die standing
Than live on my knees, begging please...

Black eyes-I don't need 'em
Blue tears-gimme freedom
Black eyes-all behind me
Blue tears'll never find me now

It's all behind me, they'll never find me now

Find your self-esteem and be forever free to dream

2007-09-04 06:08:49 · answer #5 · answered by jennijan 4 · 1 2

not sure but I DO KNOW that if you nick nak paddy whack , you can give a dog a bone...and they LIKE bones!!!! lol lol

2007-09-04 06:18:37 · answer #6 · answered by *♥* ♥* FaeGoddess*♥*♥* 6 · 1 0

Synchronized motion.

2007-09-04 09:56:10 · answer #7 · answered by Irish 7 · 1 0

its out of WAC i think and it means that if something is not right or its completely knackered then it is out of WAC (WIde awake Club) in the same way that timmy mallet is out of wac and therefore insane.

2007-09-04 06:53:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

because it is either not working properly or is different to the norm.

2007-09-04 06:01:24 · answer #9 · answered by gym junkie mummy 4 · 0 0

I've never said that.

2007-09-04 06:29:05 · answer #10 · answered by Afi 7 · 0 0

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