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How did the slang meaning of flog come about? I've searched multiple dictionaries and Etymonline but the only origin for "flog" that I can find is: 1670s, slang, perhaps a schoolboy shortening of L flagellare "flagellate " This clearly rela
meaning in context - What does beating the bishop mean? - English . . . Eric Partridge, Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, fifth edition (1961) has this entry: bishop, flog the (Of men) to masturbate: low: late C 19–20 Also bash the bishop (esp Army) Ex resemblance of glans penis to episcopal mitre or, more probably, to chess bishop
Origin of tan someones hide as in Im gonna tan your hide Doubling back to Brockett's 1825 glossary, and an 1830 publication by Robert Forby (Vocabulary of East Anglia, a vocabulary which the title page advertises as having been collected in the last two decades of the 1700s), I observe that two other survivals (along with 'tan your hide' and 'lam') from the 18th century suggest the close association
Origin of the slang L7 - English Language Usage Stack Exchange According to a Reddit post A square hence shape of L7 {} the origin is that the two adjacent characters L7 looks kind of like a square It doesn't look very square when the riser of 7 is on an angle (as in most modern computer fonts), but if you write it vertically it's pretty close I found a number of references with definitions (Urban Dictionary, Dictionary of Slang) but they didn't offer
Origin of the beatings will continue until morale improves What is the origin of the phrase the beatings will continue until morale improves? There is a Metafilter and a Quora out on it, but they are inconclusive, and the phrase does not appear in the
Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat. There are many versions of this proverb, which suggests there are always several ways to do something The earliest printed citation of this proverbial saying that I can find is in a short story by the American humorist Seba Smith - The Money Diggers, 1840: "There are more ways than one to skin a cat," so are there more ways than one of digging for money Charles Kingsley used one old British
orthography - Waling vs wailing vs whaling upon - English Language . . . Now U S colloq trans To beat, flog, thrash 1790 F Grose Provinc Gloss (ed 2) Whale, to beat with a horsewhip or pliant stick transf intr To do something implied by the context continuously or vehemently a1852 F M Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) vi 67 You remember that one that come round a spell ago a whalin' away about human