Just need a little elbow grease. Elbow grease was originally a kinda derogatory word substitute for sweat. (there were lots of terms that were considered 'coarse' in pre Victorian times that are very common today)
Easy as pie... Bullsheit, there's nothing easy about making a pie if you also make the crust from scratch.
Simply, a cheap form of plagiarism, taking as your own, someone else's work, in the hope to appear more intelligent, capable of wit. A valid example is our resident revolutionary, Rabid, he of the caps lock compulsion, obsession. ~ What a dork ! ' It's all so tiring, his repetition of the Dempartie_Nazi_Hamas_Communist_Zombie_Kult, Counter Constitutional Bolshevik's Marxist theology, the same motivation, taking as their own, another's labor, theft, really, far easier to repeat something heard than to think independently, the characteristic that all demppartie zombies share. ' ' Koom Bi Aahh ! ' ' Biden_Joe is so not a molester ! ' ffs ! Imagine, Rabid performs in the travelling circus, an entertainer ! ' I could be a Hollywood star, if I could act ! ' ~ It's a pretend world, after all, right ? Rabid's Achilles tendon, not what you think !
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Originally posted by maryjane: Just need a little elbow grease. Elbow grease was originally a kinda derogatory word substitute for sweat. (there were lots of terms that were considered 'coarse' in pre Victorian times that are very common today)
Easy as pie... Bullsheit, there's nothing easy about making a pie if you also make the crust from scratch.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't grow moss on it.
I did not know that but When I type WTF but it autocorrects to "Verily I hath witnessed a spectacle so witless, mine very soul hath packed it's belongings and fled mine body as tho reason itself hath tripped over a turnip and forever perished.
I mostly enjoy finding out the history and original meaning of these phrases. It is kind of funny when you look at insults. Most can be deconstructed mean insulting a person's intelligence, their smell, or their looks.
I recently saw a video that gave meaning to "death of a thousand cuts" or Lingchi. It is much more gruesome than I ever knew before. That is one phrase that I will never use again. It was a real execution method used in China. A person's body was disassembled piece-by-piece most of the time while they were still alive. It combines flaying with amputation. Some condemned people did not die until well past 1,000 cuts. The last one done in China was in 1905. That had some western observers and pictures taken. Do not look it up unless you want nightmares.
Originally posted by Doug85GT: ... "death of a thousand cuts"
I've also heard "death by a thousand paper cuts". Meaning that it stings like hell but is not lethal, until you acquire many, many of them - and experience the associated pain. Not exactly the original scenario that you wrote of.
I recently had to explain to my 29-year-old daughter what I meant when I said "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth". It comes from the fact that a horse's teeth can provide clues about its age and health. The saying has been generalized to mean "don't spend too much time examining the value of a gift received."
I recently had to explain to my 29-year-old daughter what I meant when I said "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth". It comes from the fact that a horse's teeth can provide clues about its age and health. The saying has been generalized to mean "don't spend too much time examining the value of a gift received."
