What is the origin of the phrase "crazy like a fox" and what does it mean, exactly?
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To be smart or cunning while appearing not to know what you are doing.\n\n"Are you crazy??"\n\n"Yeah, crazy... like a fox."\n\nNo distinct origin.  Foxes are hectic and wild, but are also very clever and cunning.
745295
I believe it is from the use of rhyming to emphasise something being great! As in "the bees knees". This then became "the mutt's nuts", which translated into non-rhyming is "the dog's bollocks". WHY? I don't know.
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It means that a simple tried, tested and reliable solution will usually be able to cope with most problems. The fox is cunning, and can try many different forms of attack - however the hedgehog knows that all it has to do is curl into a ball, and it will be safe from whatever the fox tries.\nCan't help with the origins though.
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you must be crazy or greek?\nwhich is it
708135
In Spanish,it probably refers to a person so the translation would be... "another crazy person"
707303
Eh, nobody can agree. Purists think it came from the lead singer of Fugazi eons ago (you know, in the late eighties) and the New emos think it's sold at Hot Topic. Good luck with your definition...hoo boy.
778170
I'm not entirely sure, but I think it originated with the Rolling Stones as they described their backstage parties for an interview of somesort. The saying has pretty much been adopted by every rock group and wannabe rocker eversince as a way of answering why they're in the music buisness.
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It refers to the Jonestown mass murder/suicide in 1978, where hundreds of people were forced into a tent and made to drink poisoned Flavor Aid (though many people believe it was KoolAid).\n\nMany people use the expression to refer to those who blindly follow a leader into a dangerous or lethal situation.
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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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All the above answers seem to have been done by a machine translation. Taking into account the idiom, I'd say it's something like "Asi es la mala suerte para nosotros, los falsos disenadores."
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I'm sure that in some culture or another this trait has been socially and publically classified as crazy. Yet actually, this trait is unconsciously considered crazy in any capitalistic-grounded culture(money-making at any expense to others or the planet). \nWhere "sharks" abound, kindness is considered a weakness and who but a "crazy" person would set themselves up to be devoured?
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By far the most shocking one that I'd discovered was "feisty," which literally means "like a farting dog."  It comes from an abbreviation of the phrase "fisting hound" or "fisting dog," and "fist" was in this case a reference to breaking wind.  (Though "fist" was used in the phrase as a general pejorative, like if you tripped over the "fucking chair.")
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It's currently used synonymously with "the creeps", "the willies", "goose bumps."  i.e. "That ghost story gives me the heebie-jeebies!" \n\nIt's thought to have originally had anti-semitic meanings (which you might be meaning as the 'military definition', but according to what I found: \n\nThe phrase "heebie-jeebies" was invented by Billy De Beck, a famous American comic strip artist of the 1920's, in his popular "Barney Google" strip in 1923. De Beck, by the way, also invented "hotsy-totsy" (a term of approval) and the wonderful "horsefeathers" (meaning "utter nonsense") in his strip. "Heebie-jeebies" must have caught the popular imagination immediately, since the dance of that name appeared a scant three years later, in 1926.\n\nThe invention of "heebie-jeebies" by De Beck was, without doubt, innocent of any racial or ethnic animosity. The only possible anti-Semitic interpretation of "heebie-jeebies" comes from its unfortunate resemblance to the slang term "hebe" (a cropping of "Hebrew"), which is indeed an anti-Jewish epithet. Whether you want to risk possible misunderstandings when you use "heebie-jeebies" is up to you, of course, but the truth of its innocent origin is its best defense.
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It is a Funny Quotes or you can say One-liner thought.\ni think it is by "Fossel"
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Sounds like it is from "War of the Worlds". Maybe the following:\n\n"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
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Maybe this is it?\n\n\nby Rania Shurafa" \nCountry of Origin: The Middle East\n\n\nOnce there was a lion, the king of the jungle and he was hungry. He decided he wanted to eat the cow. But he couldn't just ask the cow, so he played a little trick. He let every animal offer himsel for herself, so that the king of the jungle could have a good meal. \n\nSo the tiger went first. He asked, "King, King, I offer myself to you." The lion said, "No, no. I can't possibly eat you. Your meat is too hard." After the tiger asked, the giraffe asked," King, King, I offer myself to you." The lion refused the giraffe. He said you're too tall and bony. After the giraffe was the hippo, but the lion refused. And after the elephant came the snake, the deer, and the horse. They all asked, but the king still refused. Since every animal asked except the cow, the cow got embarassed and asked. After the cow asked, the king surprisingly agreed, and he ate the cow. So the lion got his great meal.
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Sorry, I couldn't find the meaning anywhere but I guess it's an abbreviation of some sort.\nSome 5-6 years ago there were these really stupid toys called Furby and they made a sound just like that "wurrrrrrv". It's also like the sound a cat makes when you stroke her chin.