Where does the phrase "Hit the sack" come from?
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Hit the sack \n  \n  Meaning: To go to bed, to retire for the evening to sleep. \nExample: Man, am I bushed, I'm going to hit the sack. \nOrigin: Although fallen out of common usage, one definition of a sack is a bed.  Early mattresses were often made from a cloth sack stuffed with hay, hair, or some other form of padding.  \nIn fact "sack out" is defined as "to go to bed, to go to sleep".  \n\nThanks to Jonathan Griggs
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I thought it meant someone had something JAMMED up their...\nidk tho. lol\n☺
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I think it is "Balls deep" and I think it means your in pretty deep (in trouble for example). Think about being stuck in mud up to where your balls are...I think that is what they are getting at.
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Work one's fingers to the bone (Also, work one's tail or butt off)\n\nMeans to exert oneself or labour very hard.\n\nThe expression comes from the image of working so hard that the skin and flesh off one's fingers comes off right to the bone. Dates from the mid-1800s. The less polite version dates from the first half of the 1900s.
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The word "piggyback," as in, "Honey, it's my turn to get a piggyback tonight," derives from the terms "pickpack," "pickback," and even "pick-a-pack," all used in the 17th century to indicate the act of hoisting something onto someone's back for carrying. According to the Random House Word of the Day, most etymologists assume "pick" is a variant of the verb "to pitch," meaning "to throw." "Pack" refers to items meant for carrying.\n\nBut how did the piggy grunt its way into the mix? Did giant domesticated hogs, back in the day, do the work of packhorses? No, what we have here, apparently, is a failure to communicate: a textbook case of folk etymology, in which a word is modified to something more common or easily understood when the original term has become obsolete, and thus devoid of meaning. Some examples of folk etymology at work, according to Wikipedia, are the evolving of the words "shamefast" into "shamefaced," "buttonhole into "buttonhold," and "sweetard" into "sweatheart." (But there's no truth to the rumor that Ask Yahoo! used to be called "Axe Yahoos," back in the dot-com downturn days.)
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One possible origin for the phrase is an incident said to have taken place during the siege of the Alamo in 1836, when William Barret Travis drew a line in the sand with his sword and urged those willing to stay and defend the fort to step across it. Unfortunately, this heroic story seems to have been invented by a 19th century promoter long after the fall of the Alamo. But the myth itself probably greatly popularized the phrase, so it does count as an origin of sorts even if the incident itself was apocryphal. \n\nAnother possible origin dates back to the time of the Roman Empire. It seems that one of the Macedonian kings, a bit short of cash, decided to invade Egypt, then a Roman protectorate. His army was met at the border by a lone Roman senator named Popillius Laenas, who ordered the king to withdraw. The king began to stall for time, so Popillius Laenas drew a circle in the sand around the king and demanded that the king agree to withdraw his army before he stepped out of the circle. The king, apparently impressed by the senator's nerve (or, more likely, by the Roman Empire in general), withdrew. Incidentally, not only is this account verified by contemporary historians, but it also may be the only known instance of a line drawn in the sand actually stopping someone.
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"To shuck and jive" originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards.  The expression was documented as being in wide usage in the 1920s, but may have originated much earlier.\n\n"Shucking and jiving" was a tactic of both survival and resistance.  A slave, for instance, could say eagerly, "Oh, yes, Master," and have no real intention to obey.  Or an African-American man could pretend to be working hard at a task he was ordered to do, but might put up this pretense only when under observation.  Both would be instances of "doin' the old shuck 'n jive."\n\nToday, the expression has expanded somewhat from earlier usage, and is now sometimes used to mean "talking pure baloney," "goofing off," or "goofing around."  The original meaning of deceit often remains, however.
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This term comes from the game of cricket - played on a pitch called a 'wicket'.\n\nWhen the wicket becomes 'sticky' the bowler gets the ball to move much more making it very difficult for the batsmen to score runs and not get 'out'.\n\nSo, if you are on a sticky wicket you are considered to be in a very difficult position in order to achieve your objective.
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1382, from O.Fr. fugitif, from L. fugitivus "fleeing" (but commonly used as a noun meaning "runaway"), from stem of fugere "run away, flee," from PIE base *bheug- "to flee" (cf. Gk. pheugein "to flee," Lith. bugstu "be frightened"). Replaced O.E. flyma. From 17c.-19c. Eng. had the useful adj. fugacious "likely to flee."
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Others have answered (correctly) what it would mean is a medical situation regarding male physiology and development.  Please don't take this as an idiot reply, but it is a saying that refers to a males manhood, masculinity or confronting conflict or aggression.  Having "balls" is the slang way of you're a man and will stand up or defend what you or your friend believes in when challenged by another man.  It also means that if someone says that to you they don't have any respect for you since you won't stand up for yourself or beliefs.  Example....if a bully or jerk pushes you around, makes offensive remarks about your wife and children or "steals your lunch money" and you back down and just walk away without doing anything in response; your friend or anyone nearby might say, "Your balls haven't dropped yet".  Bottom line your friend is calling you a wimp, a candy-ass or a coward.  Not exactly a boost for your ego.  And the word will get around depending on the incident.  Sorry for the long answer, but I wanted to make it clear that no man (or their family or friends) wants to be told that.
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I used to be a server and we used to say that all the time but I had no idea where it came from.  So...  I tried to find some info and this is a website I found.  I hope it answers your questions.  I found it interesting.  \n\nhttp://www.dinermuseum.org/culture/culture-slang.php
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[Q] “All my life I have heard the phrase a pig in a poke. Do you know where this phrase originated?”\n[A] Though the current version in full is “Don’t buy a pig in a poke”, don’t buy or accept something without first checking or assessing it, it’s first recorded in London around 1530 in a form intended to be good advice to honourable traders: “When ye proffer the pigge open the poke”, but its best known early appearance is in John Heywood’s A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the proverbes in the Englishe tongue of 1546 (a title usually and with good reason abbreviated to Proverbs), where it appears in the form “Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke”. About 1555, Heywood included it in his other famous compilation work, Epigrammes, in the almost modern form “I will never bye the pig in the poke”.\nMany Americans know a poke as a small bag or sack, which it was also in Heywood’s day (a usage that has survived in Scotland). A poke, for example, was a suitable container into which to stuff a piglet for sale in the local market.\nThe proverb encapsulates that wise advice to purchasers of goods, caveat emptor, let the buyer beware—always inspect the goods before you pay for them. Make the seller open his poke and show you the pig within.\nIncidentally, the proverb has its direct counterparts in other languages, as in the Swedish Köp inte grisen i säcken! However, in other languages it refers to cats, as in French: Acheter chat en poche (“To buy a cat in a pouch”), and German: Die Katze im Sack kaufen (“To buy a cat in a sack”). Why the expressions in these languages refer to cats and not pigs supports a link with another expression, to let the cat out of the bag.
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This originated in the early 1980s. It is generally regarded as an American expression. This item from the New York newspaper the Syracuse Herald-American, Feb. 1982, which is the earliest version in print that I can find, puts that in some doubt. It's in a piece by Jerry Buck, writing out of Los Angeles, about actress Lauren Tewes
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It's a euphemism for "damn hell" originating in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, when many such euphemisms became popular, such as\n\nGee whiz\nGosh darn\nCrimeny\nJeez\nDash it all\nHoly cow\nHoly moley\nCripes\n...and many, many, many more.
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I don't know if there's much etymology of the phrase, but here's an article about it which puts forth some interesting possibilities of the origin.\n\nQuote from the site:\n\n"Some linguists and historians think the expression must have been well known during the war years, citing a story about General Eisenhower's dog. The story goes that the dog (Felix) urinated on a map and the officers joked that the enemy was "pissed off." (Leonard Mosely, Marshall, 1982)."
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It was originally cowboy jargon.  The person who had to ride behind the cattle herd when it was being driven to market was called the drag rider, and he was said to "eat dust" (a herd of cattle can stir up a respectable cloud of dust, visible for miles.)  When you were in a hurry and drove the animals too hard, without time enough to stop and graze and drink, the weaker ones collapsed, typically forward onto their knees.  They "bit the dust."
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lolol.. ok ok.. the act of lowering one's balls onto someones face, or into their mouth while they are laying down. Kind of resembles dipping a tea bag into a hot cup of water....  lol  ;-)