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1 de may. de 2012 · 4. This is a slang term and was likely used in speech for a long time before being committed to the page, but the first print copy can still give us a rough idea of origin. Etymonline.com tells us: copycat (n.) by 1884, Amer.Eng., probably at least a generation older, from copy + cat. As a verb, from 1932. This Ngram tends to agree, with some ...
8 de feb. de 2011 · Etymonline says. For Pete's sake is attested from 1924, probably a euphemistic use of the disciple's name in place of Christ; Share. Improve this answer. answered Feb 8, 2011 at 14:07. Robusto. 153k 41 364 610. Sometimes, "for Pete's sake" is further euphamised to "for pity's sake." – oosterwal.
22 de jul. de 2012 · So the female forename Polly comes from the female forename Poll (also Pall), and was originally a rhyming variant of Moll, which is a diminutive of Mary. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) named his parrot Poll and taught him to speak, and in a much later 1894 children's version the parrot said "Polly wants a cracker, cracker."
15 de jun. de 2015 · FTR, Is the expression "All things X" a parody of some other popular phrase, Not really. Traditionally it is an "old-fashioned sounding" phrase. The phrase has, let us say, "dignity" and "charm". As Morton mentions, there is a Church Song "All things bright and beautiful." Traditionally, you would use the phrase it for shop names such as - let ...
29 de ago. de 2016 · There may be an obscure single-word that means "science lover", but it won't be understood by most readers. So, I suggest you use two words: Science + lover / buff / aficionado / enthusiast / nut / fan / fanatic / addict etc. There are quite a lot of usage examples for these on Google. Then there's also wannabe scientist, which might have a ...
10 de ene. de 2011 · A few years later: the earliest OED reference for the exact phrase is from a 1898 newspaper in Georgia: “When ‘push comes to shove’ will editors of the Yellow Kid organs enlist?”.
4 de feb. de 2015 · I've always heard that the phrase "In the weeds" had it's origins rooted in the prohibition era. The story goes that reserves of alcohol for most speakeasys wasn't stored, for the most part, inside said establishment because in the event of a raid, all of the reserve alcohol would be l
27 de ene. de 2012 · 1. Hissy fit could come from Hysterical, where hysteria was associated with women who had a hysterectomy and any fits of 'craziness' (for lack of a better term) were attributed to to the hysterectomy. Hence hissy fit and hence its association with women. (sourced from an undisclosed episode of QI, BBC.co.uk) Share.
31 de ene. de 2015 · Possible sources. Partridge says it's US and Canada slang from c. 1930, and that Norman Franklin says (1976) the original reference is to ther agricultural muck-spreader, and also mentions the following joke as perhaps valid.
