what is the etymology for the phrase: shut your cake hole? sometimes also seen as "pie hole".?
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"Who chose cake?"\n\nIt's exact etymology is unclear but this much is certain: the British coined the phrase. \n\n"The first documented appearance of the term is in 1943, in an small book of British military slang, although sources claim it was used in the RAF throughout World War Two, and was originally a Yorkshire dialect term in use at least since 1914."
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Really, it means you can't leave the cake intact (and enjoy it in that way) and also eat it (and enjoy it in that way) since by eating it you are cutting it.\nThis is a perfectly fine expression.  Explain the meaning to your friend.
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It's generally used in the UK as a euphemism for going to the toilet....\n\neuphemism:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism
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Red herring.  I have included a link which tells all about this word.  Evidentally, Samuel Pepys, a sailor, used it in his diary in 1660.\nHe was eating red herring for breakfast while the cabin boy was fixing (supposedly) a hole in the boat.  But the boy did not fix the hole at all.  It was just a ruse, a "red herring".
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I believe your asking about a porno slang.
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I'm not sure if it lends itself directly to the context you are using it for but there used to be a sort of country fair game called a cake walk.  People pay a certain amount to enter and are each given a cake or sweet on a plate.  Then they walk around a circular path to music and when the music ends the person who is standing inside a circle on the ground wins the cake they are carrying.  It's a pretty easy way of getting a cake so maybe that's why something easy is called "cakewalk"?
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The expression "Put up your dukes" comes from old Cockney rhyming slang: "Put up your forks. Put up your Duke of Yorks." (forks refer to fingers and hence your hands)\n\nHowever there is a line of thought that the phrase "put up your dukes" and "duke it out" refer to the name of the God of Boxing, Polydeuces
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idioms are things that you know to mean but dont really make since literally.\nexample: \nas easy as pie: very easy.\n\n"I thought you said this was a difficult problem. It isn't. In fact, it's as easy as pie."
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It comes from I think the movie "American pie" if I remember correctly. 'Stiffler' uses it. It means Mother I'd like to f*ck.
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To wish to have one's cake and eat it too (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech.
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It means you a wimp, a softie, a pushover, a pu$$y, a wuss.  It doesn't mean gay.  Why would people say that???  \n\nWhen it is used to refer directly to girl's butt (such as when a boy is using slang to flirt with a girl, like "let me get some of that candyass")--that's when it means nice booty, or sweet stuff (in a sexual and flirtatious way).\n\nhope this helps :)
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Confused.  Really it's just another name for having your cake and eating it too.  That is a name made up by a man who wants men and women.  It's not fair and it's not natural.  That is the meaning.  Thank you.
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Comes from "take the cake"\n\nCake: When someone takes the cake they are regarded as having come first in some, often trivial, activity or other. Most authorities consider that this saying goes back to the days of slavery in the USA. The slaves used to hold competitions to see which couple could produce the most elegant walk. The best promenaders won a prize, almost always a cake. The extravagant walk required for this type of competition came to be called a Cakewalk and this gave rise to the old fashioned expression "it's a cakewalk". However the meaning later came to emphasise the trivial nature of the competition and began to imply that the effort needed was minor and of little account. In consequence the modern saying "it's a piece of cake" could well be based on these old customs. \nThere is a much older possible origin, going back to the ancient Greeks. A "cake" in those times was a toasted cereal bound together with honey. It was given to the most vigilant man on night watch. Aristotle is quoted as having written in "The Knights": "if you surpass him in impudence, then we take the cake".
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Ha-ha! Folks tell me to shut my booze-hole. I should consider doing that, from time-to-time, but I have great difficulty with that! Don't you dare shut your pie-hole... I rather enjoy what comes out : ) <well, I would if I could actually hear it. You're a kill!>
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idiom- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up \n\nexample- pie in the sky means a hopeless dream
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I would find it quite offensive and racist.  Yes, it's a slang term, but it's use indicates that it is derogatory.\n\nI get irritated when someone tells me how much I must love chocolate since my fiancee is black.
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It is a play on words. If someone saying "I am going to have dinner" they mean that they are going to eat dinner (not merely own it). Thus, saying "you can't have your cake and eat it too" means, literally, that you can't eat the same cake twice.