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meaning - What does Jungle Fever mean? - English Language Usage . . . Jungle Fever originally meant malaria, according to The American Heritage Dictionary, Collins, and others It's use with this meaning peaked between 1820 and 1860, according to Google ngrams During that period, stories and novels regarding missionary travails in foreign lands were popular
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meaning - Covered with vs. covered in vs. covered by - English . . . All three are in use, and the differences are subtle; but they do exist "Covered by" generally means that the covering actually hides the thing that is covered: it would usually be an object (a sheet, a lid, a curtain) rather than a substa
How did the word beaver come to be associated with vagina? Jonathon Green's sources (as cited in Brian Hooper's answer) notwithstanding, the limerick that appears in Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel (1927) runs as follows:
What is the origin of the phrase needle in a hay stack? The idiom in full is: "like looking for a needle in a haystack" it is based on the idea that it is very hard to find a sewing needle in a haystack (a tall pile of dry grass)
have got - Havent got or havent gotten? - English Language Usage . . . An American might say I have not gotten any sleep since Monday A British person would not say that They MIGHT say I have not got any sleep since Monday but, in my view, it is not really idiomatic in any UK register
Origin of doolally [tap] - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Doolally tap meant being mad, crazy or literally, suffering from camp fever Tap in English is malarial fever, from the Hindi for fever The Madness at Deolali (Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps) by Major NA Martin begins: The slang word ‘doolally’ or ‘doolali’ is used to describe someone who is ‘out of one’s mind’ or