Where did the phrase all that an a bag of chips come from?
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Dr. Evil said it in Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me
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Bollocks.\n\nIt was a saying made up from so called skilled tradesmen because the so called jack of all trades were showing them up and proving anybody could do their jobs with a little practise.
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a bag of peanuts is the answer
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59100.html
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In what context was the word used?
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phew.... here ya go:\n\n"The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang" by Tony Thorne (1990, originally published by Bloomsbury Publishing). "cakehole, n. British. Mouth. A slang term which was extremely widespread (and considered by many to be vulgar) in the 1950s and 1960s. It survives in the argot of schoolchildren."\n\nIn other words, it came from the British.
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I believe it's originally from the movie "A Cry In the Dark" with Meryl Streep, when the dingos in Australia attacked the baby.  This was a very tearful movie.  But I must say, that in the Seinfield episode when "Elaine" said "The dingos ate your baby" to the obnoxious woman, with her Aussy accent...it was hilarious!
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CUT THE CHEESE -- Since the late 1800s "cut" in various phrases meant "to expel intestinal gas." 1899 - To cut one's finger, is to break wind. "Cut the cheese" is placed in 1965-70 by this source. "Dictionary of American Regional English," Volume 1 by Frederic G. Cassidy (1985, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England). Another reference says the phrase "cut the cheese" was used earlier but with a different meaning: 1895 Gore, Student Slang, 17: Cut no cheese. To have no weight or value. From "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, A-G" by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994. A third source says the expression originated in the "Mainstream 1950s." From "Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang" by Tom Dalzell (Merriam-Webster Inc., Springfield, Md., 1996).
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This phrase stems from a kissing booth at a carnival that was held in Podunk, Iowa.  It turns out that the young lady that was going to occupy the booth was thrown from the animal that she was riding on the way to said boot and injured her mouth so they decided to use the animal that she was riding, her Jackass.  So for a buck you could kiss to her jackass, or as she would say “kiss my jackass”, and over time it was shorten too, well you know.
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"It is everything I like" is probably a better fit than translations that use the word "all" which can have a subtly different meaning in English.\n\n(from a Canadian who grew up in a French-speaking town.)
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It is just a quote....\n\n"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun"\n\ncan't remember who said it though....
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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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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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Spelling it "tickety-boo" I found:\n\n"But some find a link with the British Army in India, suggesting it comes from the Hindi phrase tikai babu, which is translated as “it’s all right, sir”."
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To "mince" was to cut up, chop up, etc.  So the saying means, don't cut your words short.  Say what you mean, fully.
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Pig-in-a-poke refers to a scam originating in the Late Middle Ages, when meat was scarce, but apparently rats and cats were not.\n\nThe scheme entails a sale of a "suckling pig", in a "poke" (bag), the bag obviously containing a live healthy little pig. The wriggling bag actually contains a cat, not particularly prized as a source of meat, and at any rate, quite unlikely to grow to be a large hog.\n\nThe bag which ostensibly contains a baby pig is sold to the victim, without opening it.\n\nA common colloquial expression in the English language, meaning "to allow oneself to be easily conned", or "one gets what they pay for" is to "buy a pig in a poke". Similar expressions exist in other languages, e.g. in German "die Katze im Sack kaufen" or Dutch "een kat in de zak kopen" (lit.: to buy the cat in a bag).\n\nThis is also the origin of the expressions: "Let the cat out of the bag" meaning 'to reveal that which is secret', and "left holding the bag" meaning 'to find oneself with nothing for their efforts', as the cat is quite likely to flee when the bag is opened.\n\nThe phrase let the cat out of the bag is also referenced to the English Navy practice of flogging with the "Cat" of nine tails. To let the cat out of the bag meaning to reveal a crewman's indiscretion that will result in a flogging with the "cat" (of nine tails)
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Nobody actually knows where that phrase comes from.  There is an urban legend about where it came from that can be found here: http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.htm