Phrase Meaning
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- Chazolta
"Working hard as a dog"
Any who know where that came from?
- _salisae_0
i just learned that crocodiles make the sound of a crying child to lure men .. thus crocodile tears.
- really? thats fucked.Tungsten
- i think that the meaning actually comes from the fact that crocodiles can't cry at all, i'm not sure thoughbolus
- ah you're right and i'm wrong
http://en.wikipedia.…bolus
- acescence0
i think it was originally "working like a dog", and i imagine it comes from the fact that dogs were domesticated for labor.
- dog_opus0
My dogs are both on their asses passed out cold right now with full stomachs. Working hard indeed.
- _salisae_0
it does contradict the 'a dog's life' saying
- Tungsten0
Probably cause they do shitty dangerous work for us for nothing more than a pat on the head and a little processed meat treat.
- 7point340
have you asked your mom?
- _salisae_0
it's strange that people say 'the four corners of the earth' while it has been proven to be round
- IT HAS????
*mind=blownNotByHand - ...and if it was a cube, there’d be 8 corners.MrOneHundred
- ...maybe they were looking at a rectangular map.MrOneHundred
- IT HAS????
- plash0
my dog doesn't do shit
- 3point141590
My dogs just sleep, eat and shit each and every day!
"They have the dogs life".
- epete220
it has to do with something with the arab culture and shoes.
- Chazolta0
Thanks gung_hoek. I have another one tho.
"Sleep like a baby"
It makes no sense, babies dont sleep for shit.
- It originally meant an unsettled sleep. It’s meaning has changed.MrOneHundred
- Machuse0
Slush Fund
from Scandinavian words meaning ‘slops,’ this phrase is derived from the nineteenth-century shipboard practice of boiling up large pots of pork and other fatty meats. The fat that rose to the top of the kettles was stored in vats and then sold to soap and candle makers. The money received from the sale of the ‘slush’ was used for the crew’s comfort and entertainment.