what is the meaning of "throws a monkey wrench into the ointment"?
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It's a mixed metaphor, a mixture of what appears to be your American version of 'to throw a spanner in the works' and 'a fly in the ointment'.\n\nI guess it's supposed to mean buggering things up just to be a pain.
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I heard it came from some natives engaging in sexual contact with the monkeys, getting infected with the virus and passing it on to a human partner.I have absolutely no refference material for this speculation tho, it's something i heard a long time ago.
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The phrase is not half past a monkey's uncle.  Silly...  It's "half past a monkey's a*ss and a quarter to his balls"  That's what time it is.
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A. monkey in a school play.\nhe said it himself in his first few interviews. that was the time when he was making the first movie. he also had a small appearance in the movie the tailor of panama. but that was his first big break. the school play i mean.\nhe had to wear a weird monkey costume with orange puff balls of ears.
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I'm not 100% certain, but every time I hear it I want to punch the person who said it in the face and/or run them over with my car (or a larger car).  \n\nIt's usual colloquial usage is when someone does something very rude, cruel, or generally nasty and wants to follow it up with an insincere apology thus cementing their total lack of tact.\n\nHypothetical situation:\nTwelve year old Jenny hits a volleyball lightly over the net at a family party.  Uncle Chad, who's had a few Budweisers already, leaps up and spikes the ball as hard as possible into her face.\n"My bad!"
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It is indeed rhyming slang, originally from the East End of London, but taken to Australia by English emigrants. The source is the phrase cobbler’s awl.\n\nAn awl is an ancient pointed tool for making holes in things, the most characteristic tool of any leatherworker; it was an essential part of the shoemaker’s kit, since he was forever piercing leather to sew pieces together. So a cobbler’s awl was as characteristic of his trade as his last, or foot-shaped anvil.\n\nThe rhyming slang linked cobbler’s awls with balls, that is, testicles. As was usual with such rhyming slang phrases, the first word later appeared on its own as a kind of half-disguised code, so cobblers! came to be used in the same way as balls!, as an exclamation of derision or disbelief, suggesting something was rubbish or nonsense. The examples in the big Oxford English Dictionary suggest that this last sense is actually quite recent, only being recorded in print from the 1950s onwards (though very probably older in the spoken language).\n\nA load of old cobblers is an intensification of that, once commonly heard in London as well as in Australia and also in other Commonwealth countries. Americans seem never to have got into the habit of using cobblers! (or indeed balls!), though British cop shows exported to North America have made both retorts familiar to many there.
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shed; molt,throw forth; drop,To choose actors for the parts in a play, movie, or other theatrical presentation.To deposit or indicate (a ballot or vote).\nTo turn or direct: All eyes were cast upon the speaker
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It often implies that you have made a serious mistake, but more strictly it indicates that something you have done (or some turn of events) has left you looking extremely embarrassed or foolish.\nIt feels like one of those expressions that have been around for ever, but the evidence suggest that it’s an American expression from the middle of last century (its first known appearance was in an American television series about 1951). It’s possible, though, that it is somewhat older, though I haven’t been able to find it in my large collection of out-of-copyright e-texts, which suggests it is more recent than the 1920s.\nI know of two possibilities for where it came from. My assumption to start with was that it was a comment on a minor social gaffe at a meal, when poor manners or sloppy eating left egg around your mouth. The late John Ciardi, however, suggested an origin in the lower and more rowdy kind of theatrical performance, in which an incompetent actor would have been pelted with eggs and forced off the stage.\nAfter I wrote the first version of this piece, subscriber Cal Clifford put a possible new perspective on he expression by mentioning egg-sucking dogs: “Occasionally, a trusted, working farm dog would develop the bad habit of taking eggs from nests and eating them, turning himself from asset into liability.” I found several examples of the term, including this from Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor, dated 1902: “His chief business was the doing away with dogs of ill-repute in the country; vicious dogs, sheep-killing dogs, egg-sucking dogs, were committed to Alan’s dread custody, and often he would be seen leading off his wretched victims to his den in the woods, whence they never returned.” And in Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp, by Annie Roe Carr (of about 1919): “He’s a miserable, fox-faced scoundrel, and I’ve no more use for him than I have for an egg-sucking dog.” So it is just possible that the expression might be a figurative extension from that of a dog found with egg around its muzzle, mute evidence of depravity.
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It is a form of judicial corporal punishment that is legal in many countries.  The guilty person is taken to a public place (hence "public") and beaten with a switch/stick (made from bamboo, hence "cane").  The sentence usually specifies the number of lashes the person receives.  This punishment made international headlines several years ago when an 18yr.old American living in Singapore was found guilty of vandalizing a car.  His sentence was 6 lashes on his bare bottom.
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It's a monkey.\n\nCongrats!
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A group of scientist placed five monkeys in a cage, in the centre of the cage they put stairs and, on it a cluster of bananas.\nWhen a monkey went up the stairs to grab the bananas, the scientists launched cold water in the ones that were in the soil. After certain time, when a monkey went up the stairs he would be beaten by the other monkeys.\nAfter sometime, no monkey tried to went up the stairs, despite the temptation for the bananas.\nThen the scientists substituted one of the 5 monkeys.\nThe first thing he did was go up the stairs, but he was quickly removed by the others that immediately start to beat him.\nAfter some beatings, he quit trying to go up the stairs.\nA second one was replaced and the same story occurred, having the first substitute participated, with enthusiasm, in the beating of the novice.\nOne third was substituted and the same fact happened.\nOne fourth and then the Last of the veterans was substituted.\nSo the scientists were now with a group of 5 monkeys that without ever having taken a cold bath, continued to beat the one that tried to go to the bananas.\nIf it was possible to ask to the monkeys why they beaten the one that tried to get up the stairs, the answer would probably be: "I don't know. Things were always like this around here..."\nSo sometimes we should ask ourselves why we do some things without thinking!\n\n" It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice!"\n(Albert Einstein)
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Do you mean the wrench?  There was some wrench logo on the side of the field.  I don't know what it really was or what it means.
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A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved. -- Indian proverb\nFor more proverbs from India, check the link out
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lol, not trying to get all smart with u or nothin', but think about a pimp's behavior. how do they treat their whore? they tend to abuse them and all that(if they don't do what their pimp tells them to do.) so that's where to phrase "pimp slap" came from. So basically it means their gonna slap u wit the back of their hand.  c'mon, i'm sure you could have figured that out on ur own. good question though. bye!\n\nps. i mean........the phrase even says "slap"........c'mon now....
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It's a slang contraction.
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kermit's finger. haha
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If everyone took the bible literally this world would be quite an unpleasant place to be lol.  The phrase "an eye for an eye" has been misinterpreted...if someone gouged your eye out do you really want that person to give you their gouged eye? lol...i hope not lol it just means you have to substitute the loss with some kind of compensation hehe and then feel really bad for gouging someone's eye out in the first place =P