I'd really like to know where that saying originated. Thanks.
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http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6596&SearchTerms=freeloader\n\n"Colloquial freeloader first recorded 1930s"\nhttp://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=freeloader&searchmode=none
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'... It’s a fairly common American expression, known for much of the twentieth century. But it’s one about which almost no information exists, at least in the two dozen or so reference books I’ve consulted. William and Mary Morris, in their Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, confess to the same difficulty. A handbasket is just a basket to be carried in the hand (my thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary for that gem of definition). The Dictionary of American Regional English records to go to heaven in a handbasket rather earlier than the alternative, which doesn’t appear in print until the 1940s (Walt Quader tells me that Burton Stevenson included a citation in his Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases from Bayard Kendrick’s The Odor of Violets, published in 1941). But DARE quotes a related expression from 1714: “A committee brought in something about Piscataqua. Govr said he would give his head in a Handbasket as soon as he would pass it”, which suggests that it, or at least phrases like it, have been around in the spoken language for a long time. For example, there’s an even older expression, to go to heaven in a wheelbarrow, recorded as early as 1629, which also meant “to go to hell”. I can only assume that the alliteration of the hs has had a lot to do with the success of the various phrases, and that perhaps handbasket suggests something easily and speedily done.'
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I think it was coined by Martin Lawrence, the same man who gave us "You go, Girl!"\n\nCave\n\np.s.---Just found this:\n\n"In the case of "don't go there," the earliest citation for the phrase in print in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from an interview with comedian Martin Lawrence in Entertainment Weekly back in February 1994. At the time the star of the highly-rated Fox sitcom "Martin," Lawrence took the opportunity to complain, oddly enough, that his material was being stolen by other Fox shows: \n\n"Something ain't right," Lawrence says, removing his sunglasses. ... "We started using the expressions 'You go, girl!' and 'Don't go there!' and no one in television was doing that. No one. Now a lot of Fox shows are using the same stuff and the same premises."
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The literal meaning is "from faith ,confidence"\nwhich we might translate as "out of faith comes confidence"\nor "out of faith comes trust".\n\nNot sure of the origins. The words could be used with religious sense but in other ways too.
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There is hardly an answer, only that I recognize the language, that the joke is sweet and that I wish I could not only understand it but say it too.\nSend more, please, send more!
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Everyone is wrong except the guy who said it was from Anglo-Saxon.  "F..k" has a long pedigree in the Germanic languages.  It was found in Proto-Germanic about 2500 years ago as the verb *fukan 'have intercourse'.  This was not vulgar at that time and was a euphemism for some older word.  Ultimately, it comes from Proto-Indo-European *pug- "to strike", from which we get the borrowed Latin form pugilism 'boxing'.
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it is from proverbs....in the bible.. god uses the wife to help and bless the husband (ideally)
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Yes, those two sayings carry the same weight. You are also right about the translation. I have noticed you are correct about virtually everything you say. Keep it coming.
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lifestinks90. Hence the name where this came from, 'Life Stinks [[pass the sauce.]]\n\nThat, and I like to use [[these]]
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Here is a possible answer:\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/952.html
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"The origin for this saying comes from the old sailing ship days.\nJust outside every port or harbour in the world there is a strip of sand called\nthe bar which is formed by the tides and if you don’t cross it at the right time\nof the tide you can ground the ship with disastrous consequences. This is\nknown as “Crossing the Bar”. It signifies that you have completed your voyage across the\nstormy tempestuous ocean and have entered the relative peace and tranquillity of the harbour\nand now the celebrations can begin."
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That's pretty cool.... the problem is I don't know what it means! By the way, where are you from?
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It appears to be an English or Danish proverb, source unknown:\n\n"You can judge a man by the company he keeps."
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According to a web search it is thought to have been said by Jesus, but isn't in the Bible -- Mormons seem to like it though.  Is it in the Book of Mormon?
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From where did u get that??
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Sorry , I cannot find where those lines come from. I have spent the last 20 minutes looking for you to no avail.\nIt might be from the book "I know why the caged bird sings", I am not sure.
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I was thinking about the same thing the other day. It's funny how we hear phrases so much we know what they mean, but sometimes don't stop to think about it literally. I think it means to take something as if it will always be granted to you, as if you won't have to work hard for it in the future.