Flash Past Episode 7

• Old as dirt – dirt is as old as the Earth
• Over the hill – refers to life as a hill with the peak being midlife
• See eye to eye – from the book of Isaiah 52:8
• You can say that again – agreement from the first half of the 1900s
• Don’t get your panties in a wad – from the 1960s Brit TV show The Basil Brush Show (knickers in a twist)
• Fit to be tied – 19th Century angry/crazy – straightjacket reference
• Go through the roof
• (had it) Up to here – refers to how full of something or up to where you’re filled
• Push your buttons – getting on nerves,
• Chaps (burns) my ass (hide) – from breaking in a new saddle and getting a chapped ass
• Ass backwards
• Bend over backwards – go out of your way
• The buck stops here – Harry Truman made it popular
• Going gang busters
• Pushing up daisies
• It ain’t over til the fat lady sings
• Grasping at straws
• Shoot the moon
• What’s good for the goose is good for the gander – good for one, good for all
• Blowing smoke (up your ass) – make sound better than it is
• Pull the wool over your eyes – 16th and 17th century woolen wigs – blind to…
• Pull your leg – in 1800s London a wire was used to pull/trip people for theft
• Yank your chain
• Old ball and chain
• Shotgun wedding – forced marriage (at gunpoint) to save family pride
• Tying the knot – some old ceremonies actually tied bride/groom’s hands together
• Shoestring budget – low small cheap budget
• Too rich for my blood – possibly to do with royalty and bloodline
• In two shakes of a lamb’s tail
• Coon’s age
• An eye for an eye - Matthew 5:38 and the code of hammarabi
• Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
• Keep an eye out
• That guy’s a jackass
• Hit the nail on the head
• Rule of thumb
• Ass over teacup
• Egg on my face
• Jack of all trades
• Pass with flying colors
• Flash in the pan
• Tongue in cheek
• Eat crow
• Dressed to the nines
• Crocodile tears
• Chip on your shoulder
• Knee high to a short hog
• Dumber than a box of rock

Flash Past Trivia Question

Last weeks Question:
Q:  A number 10 wood screw has how many threads per inch?
A:  13

This week’s question:

Q:  Who coined the phrase “Global Warming”?