So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.***
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Posted on 11/20/2011 5:11:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Then there was the snake named Mrs. Pott who was so poor, she didn't have a pit to hiss in! :-)
Which reminds me...the other day Bill O'Reilly was talking about Pliny for some reason, and kept mispronouncing his name by making the I long. So much for Mr. Know-it-all.
I had to quit 1/2 way down, the tears from laughing were dripping on my keyboard...but did finish without shorting out my computer..
I thought “flash in the pan” had to do with panning for gold.
I remember as a kid using chamber pots at grandma’s farm..each bed had one under it. You learn real quick that in the middle of the night if you had to go, don’t tip the pot when you take it out from under the bed. Beds slept 3 kids each. Thank goodness we only visited the farm didn’t live on it..
“Man who screw around in blueberry patch get ass in jam.”
No, it came from the use of flintlock rifles and was a common expression in the 18th Century long before the era of the gold rush in America.
I read recently, here I feel certain, that at some point in England urine was collected and the people would actually sell their piss.
Someone reduced to selling piss was “piss poor”. A much worse condition was being so poor there was no pot to piss in. Such desperate souls “had no pot to piss in”
So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.***
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You posted;When you pulled the trigger on your flintlock rifle and only the powder in the pan went off without igniting the main charge, it was called “flash in the pan.”
No, I believe it originated during the Gold Rush. A flash of gold in the pan looked promising but in the end the claim didn’t pan out.
Speaking of flintlocks, I think you “went off half cocked” not to mention “hang fires”.
“I need to see a man about a horse” is a common rural expression. When I was in Mongoia, they knew what I meant but there they went to see the horse instead.
You're right! I forgot about those.
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