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20 de may. de 2016 · Stone cold: Unfeeling, insensible, as in That sad story left her stone cold. This analogy was already used by Shakespeare in Henry V (2:3): “Cold as any stone.” (The American Heritage Idioms Dictionary) Examples: But the stone cold fact is his children still love him, just as much as they love their mother.
8 de feb. de 2012 · It's true stoned is more often used nowadays for intoxicated by cannabis, but it too was first used of alcohol — originally in compounds such as as stone-drunk, stone-cold. First recorded as a single word in print in Hepcats jive talk dictionary (1945).
15 de jun. de 2021 · derives from the idiomatic use of "cold iron" to denote a bladed weapon, and that the witch-scaring property was not the metal itself but rather the fear of being bloodied. That is: witches dislike iron objects (says Pliny) but also witches dislike being stabbed (says Brewer), thus witches dislike swords.
13 de ene. de 2016 · (Note that, indeed, you could certainly say "he quit heroin stone cold".) With that viewpoint, it's completely natural to say "we undertook the enterprise from a cold turkey start", exactly meaning we jumped in with no preparation, helpful pharmaceuticals, etc. Fascinating question!
4 de mar. de 2021 · "Stone-throwing devil(s)" historically has overwhelmingly been a reference to an actual occurrence in 1682 in New England. According to the New England Historical Society: During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle, N.H.
11 de abr. de 2022 · Dmitry Acemonte. 299 1 5. 2. This doesn't seem a specific idiom, but I would guess it relates to the idea of an insect living under a stone, and the stone is being lifted so he can crawl back under it. The notion of something crawling out from under a stone or living under a rock is a very common metaphor, even if I can't find a good reference ...
26 de feb. de 2014 · The case insensitive version has more interesting info: the lower case "cold war" started its decline in 1962 (the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis) and both terms grow considerably starting in 1987 (year of Gorbachev's democratization reforms, Regan's "Tear Down the Wall" speech, and the "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty), with the title case version growing exponentially from that ...
19 de sept. de 2011 · The use of south as in the phrase go south stems from the 1920s (from the Oxford English Dictionary): colloq. (orig. Stock Market). Downward or lower in value, price, or quality; in or into a worse condition or position. Esp. in to head (also go) south.
14 de ene. de 2020 · Tiny dates back to the sixteenth century. Teeny is first attested in the OED in 1802 in a quote that compares the two terms. The adjective tiny, in some provinces teeny, is no doubt from this root. 1802Monthly Mag. Dec. 405/1. Meanwhile, Teeny in reduplicated form as "teeny-weeny" appeared attested in 1842.
27 de ene. de 2012 · 1. Hissy fit could come from Hysterical, where hysteria was associated with women who had a hysterectomy and any fits of 'craziness' (for lack of a better term) were attributed to to the hysterectomy. Hence hissy fit and hence its association with women. (sourced from an undisclosed episode of QI, BBC.co.uk) Share.
