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Title: What does that mean?
Post by: TR on October 14, 2003, 20:55

http://www.idiomsite.com/

Just 1 of what the sayings mean loads more in the above site, which one is your favourite.

Cock & Bull?

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Cock and bull story
'A Cock and Bull story' is a form of Chinese whispers. It comes from a long time ago when the two most popular pubs in a village were The Cock and The Bull. If a story started in The Cock, by the time it got to The Bull it had been either twisted or exaggerated.

 

Hook  8) Star

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Clive on October 14, 2003, 22:35

:mg: Hook!  What a wonderful site.   :thanks:

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Michelle on October 14, 2003, 23:20

I like this one, had a completely different meaning than I thought  :o  ;D  ;)

Got my mojo working

Mojo meaning voodoo, to have a lucky charm; your magic can't work against me. The phrase originated with black blues music in the US, possibly from John Lee Hooker's eponymous song.

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: chorleydave on October 14, 2003, 23:33

Great site!  Bookmarked.  :thanks:   Hook.

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Lona on October 17, 2003, 21:51

Great site but........................

What about, "Your bum's out the window"

or "The bum's rush"

Now I have often wondered what those sayings meant. ::)

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Tony on October 17, 2003, 23:59

Naturally Catch-22 is my favorite

Catch-22
This phrase, meaning a situation where one bureaucratic regulation is dependent on another, which in turn is dependent on the first, derives from the 1961 novel of the same name by Joseph Heller:

Yossarian looked at him soberly and tried another approach. "Is Orr crazy?"
"He sure is," Doc Daneeka said.

"Can you ground him?"

"I sure can. But first he has to ask me to. That's part of the rule."

"Then why doesn't he ask you to?"

"Because he's crazy," Doc Daneeka said. "He has to be crazy to keep flying combat missions after all the close calls he's had. Sure, I can ground Orr. But first he has to ask me to."

"That's all he has to do to be grounded?"

"That's all. Let him ask me."

"And then you can ground him?" Yossarian asked.

"No. Then I can't ground him."

"You mean there's a catch?"

"Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.


Heller originally titled his novel Catch-18, but at the request of his publisher changed it. Leon Uris had just published Mila-18 and the publisher did not want confusion between the two books.

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Michelle on October 18, 2003, 09:37

Quote from: Lona on October 17, 2003, 21:51

Great site but........................

What about, "Your bum's out the window"

or "The bum's rush"

Now I have often wondered what those sayings meant. ::)

I've not heard either of those Lona  ???  Are they scottish ones?

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Clive on October 18, 2003, 09:42

The bum's rush means that someone has been quickly and physically ejected from somewhere.  I haven't heard of the other one though.

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Michelle on October 18, 2003, 09:52

:lol:  Thats disgusting :kid: :vomit:

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Adept on October 20, 2003, 13:42

Quote from: Michelle on October 18, 2003, 09:52

:lol:  Thats disgusting :kid: :vomit:

::) Michelle :o Bum as in American tramp ;D ;D

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Michelle on October 20, 2003, 21:47

:lol:

Yeah right  :P  :o  ;D


ewwwwwwwww

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Lona on October 30, 2003, 21:43

I can tell you the meaning of "Your bum's out the window". I don't know if it is Scottish or not.

What it means is "You have missed out" or "Missed the Boat".

It's from the days of the tenement houses where there was only one toilet for many, hence the expression "Your bum's out the window"  :o ::) :o

Title: Re:What does that mean?
Post by: Michelle on November 02, 2003, 20:28

:lol:  I like it  ;D