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Origin of son of a gun - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Growing up there was a friend of my family who would often use son of a gun as a slang term For example, And that son of a gun has a 300hp motor in it Like any father, my Dad wanted to raise me
Neutral form of son of a lt;blank gt; - English Language Usage Stack . . . 4 I'm trying to come up with gender-neutral androgynous forms of idiomatic phrases like "son of a gun", "son of a bitch", etc , substituting the "son" in each case for a neutral word that does not specify the gender of the person in question Alternatives I have considered: child, spawn, kid, offspring None of them sound natural
Origin of Son of a Gun - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Closed 12 years ago According to the OED a 'son of a gun' was a child born to a woman who accompanied her husband on a Royal Navy gunship However I distinctly remember hearing on a BBC Radio 4 history programme that the 'sons of guns' were children born to 'ladies of easy virtue' with whom British sailors frequented in foreign ports
Meaning of the phrase frog-walker in reference to a horse It is a cowboy term for a horse that walks in a somewhat frog-like fashion in a series of short hops, which means the horse is unlikely to move too wildly and throw its rider The term comes up in a few list of cowboy slang and books on cowboying Dictionary of the American West, Win Blevins, Texas A M University Press, 1 Aug 2008, defines a frog walk as: A form of mild bucking in short hops
What does “packing heat” mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . . Heat heater is slang for "gun" (definition #14) and to pack has an informal meaning "to carry, deliver, or have available for action" (v tr definition #8) So "packing heat" means that you are carrying a gun (and are ready to use it)
Oh fudge knuckle! - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What does this expression mean? I heard it in a video where the person said something like This sounds right, but in fact, son of a gun, or as my younger son would say, fudge knuckle, it goes
Meaning of dying aint much of a living? - slang This is one very catchy phrase from an old movie Dying ain't much of a living, son -Clint Eastwood (The Outlaw Josey Wales) I know what does it mean literally but when to use it generally in day
What is the meaning of sword and gun on the table Someone put a gun and a knife in front of me The gun was a 38 and the knife was what we call a dagger Maranzano [the boss] motions us up and we say some words in Italian Then Joe Bonanno pricks my finger with a pin and squeezes until the blood comes out What then happens, Mr Maranzano says, 'This blood means that we are now one Family