Famous Sayings & Slangs

Cold shower time, Meowth!

 

Is it weird that the idea of dead cats perturbs me more than the idea of dead humans?

 

Yes!

 

Come the era that we have a daily diet of cats killing cats in fictional stories on the TV, you may reverse that feeling.

 

You might be onto something.

 

My very large and authoritive book on sayings and their origins suggests that this comes from ye dayes of olde when archers would practice shooting at a cat tied to a length of rope and swung around by a serf.

That image should cause Joe some quite conciderable distress.

 

Anyone know what the phrase "a whole different kettle of fish" is about?

 

As I mentioned on another thread, does "Sackcloth and Ashes" come in blue and white?

 

Here's one explanation. Don't know how true it is

http://www.****e.org/cgi-bin/pooclub.cgi?p=chat&c=phrases&i=kettleoffish

 

He'll be OK as long as it's the serf who gets hit, not the cat

 

That different-kettle-of-fish link doesn't appear to work, so here's another: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ket1.htm

 

A pretty kettle of fish may be the correct expression

 

Pretty and fish are not words that sit well together........ especially on this board

 

Well a Mackerel is a pretty thing. And they taste beautiful too.

 

There is nothing like a rainbow trout freshly tickled from a tributary to the Test and taken home and grilled with butter and some almonds and eaten with fresh Hampshire field mushrooms and fresh Hampshire watercress.

It is a superb meal and if you were very naughty like my poacher of a little brother a meal that cost absolutely nothing but the cost of the energy for the grill.

Andover Saint might know what I am talking about.

 

Is that where the saying "holy mackerel" comes from then........or is it the more likely from the feeding of the 5000!!

 

That's probably pushing the attributes of mackerel beyond its considerable limits.