Often said phrases. Where from and what they mean.

[sukie]

I was walking today and heard in a podcast the phrase “tha was a pipe dream”… where did it come from?

late 19th century: referring to a dream experienced when smoking an opium pipe

Okay that one was easy but you get the idea.

 

[sukie]

“Cat got your tongue?”

This idiom possibly dates to ancient Egypt, where punishment for a crime meant your tongue would be cut out and fed to a cat


Yikes

 

[sukie]

Heard 2 today … “Jumped the Shark” and “took Pot Shots”

If you don’t know the first one… you are young

Pot shots were just shooting to kill to fill a food pot ignoring any sporting etiquette

 

[sukie]

Put on a sweatshirt today because it felt like 39 this morning in S Florida.

The name sweat shirt is used to describe the shirt I put on because I am the farthest away possible from any sweating.

 

[sukie]

From my growing up.

Whenever I stepped on a rusty nail, stapled a finger or in any way punctured skin with metal or rusty or not, had to get a tetanus shot because

1. could never remember when last shot took place and
2. if I didn’t “I would get Lock Jaw!”

Has anyone had or knew of anyone with “Lock Jaw”?