where did the saying straight from the horses mouth come from?
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actually this question was AOL's home page the other day I believe. The saying came from the horse racing track. People would offer a tip and a horse that would win and if was an insider ( jockey, trainer, ect)  or reliable tip they would say it came "straight from the horses mouth"
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"A way to a man's heart, is through his stomache." Dont know where that came from, but thats the sayin. Probably came from a big dude. lol ;)
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It seems to have come out of the military.  Originally the A stood for Arse (or the three letter word meaning the same).  Now the phrase has been modified (soldiers telling their girlfriends what it means) by saying that the A stands for Awesome.\nThe phrase is used to express any emotion, but usually implies agreement with what had just been said.
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Well it is actually an old English proverb.  "Look ere ye leap" written by John Heywood in 1546.  I suppose since we don't say "ere" and "ye" anymore, it just transformed.  He is also famous for "The more the merrier" and "Haste makes waste" among others.\n\nHope that helps.  \nCheck the link below for more.
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Etymology\nCreative origin by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. Yahoo, a race of brutes, who look and act like man. \nalso the rebel battle yell (southern confederate, CSA) cried with a shrill yeaaaaa hoo as in yea, though I walk in the valley of death... \n\nNoun\nA rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout \nA loud boisterous person. \nA humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia. \n\nInterjection\nAn exclamation of joy \nA battle cry
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a saying is like 'you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink' and contradiction is when you say one thing, and mean another. That sort of thing.
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Willys cynical thought for the fugging day;\n\nHow do you stop a run a way horse? Bet on it! <sarcastic>
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One possible origin for the phrase is an incident said to have taken place during the siege of the Alamo in 1836, when William Barret Travis drew a line in the sand with his sword and urged those willing to stay and defend the fort to step across it. Unfortunately, this heroic story seems to have been invented by a 19th century promoter long after the fall of the Alamo. But the myth itself probably greatly popularized the phrase, so it does count as an origin of sorts even if the incident itself was apocryphal. \n\nAnother possible origin dates back to the time of the Roman Empire. It seems that one of the Macedonian kings, a bit short of cash, decided to invade Egypt, then a Roman protectorate. His army was met at the border by a lone Roman senator named Popillius Laenas, who ordered the king to withdraw. The king began to stall for time, so Popillius Laenas drew a circle in the sand around the king and demanded that the king agree to withdraw his army before he stepped out of the circle. The king, apparently impressed by the senator's nerve (or, more likely, by the Roman Empire in general), withdrew. Incidentally, not only is this account verified by contemporary historians, but it also may be the only known instance of a line drawn in the sand actually stopping someone.
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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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Diesel got it right.\n\nThe Trojan Horse is the source of the saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"--the exact opposite of "don't look a gift horse in the mouth"
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It is an idiom intended to mean "be careful, pay attention to detail"  it has morphed, in recent times, to mean many other things including "be polite".\n\nThere are several theories about it's origin, but the one I believe makes the most sense is - mind your Pints and Quarts.  Meaning to keep track of what you order in a pup so you are not over charged.
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Its origin is Latin, cum grano salis, based on antidote to poison needing a grain of salt to work \n\nTo “take something with a grain of salt” is to view a statement with a skeptical attitude
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We hear the term gee used in the city as well as the country today, in the form gee-gee, a hypochoristic (baby talk) term for a horse.  Now that we have discussed the word gee, it is probably not difficult to see whence gee-gee came.  The word used to direct a horse simply came to apply to the horse. Children in the early 19th century saw horses on a daily basis, in many cases. The youngest children, just learning to speak, would hear men shouting "Gee!" to their horses, and so they, very logically for children, applied that word to the animal. It became gee-gee after the pattern of other children's words for animals, such as bow-wow for dog and kitty cat for cat, though it was still found as gee alone, as well. The earliest record of the gee-gee usage is 1869, and this one is from 1886: "To carry two heavy boys... on his back, pretending that he was a gee-gee." It was certainly being used as early as the first part of the 19th century, however; it usually takes some time for slang or children's words to find their way into written form.\n\nSo when a farmer calls haw and gee to his horses, he is etymologically saying hey and go!
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I think it's a euphemism for "jacksh-t"\nSo now the question is, where did THAT phrase come from?
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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
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There is an old saying that comes to mind, "From Your mouth to God's ears."
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The literal meaning is "from faith ,confidence"\nwhich we might translate as "out of faith comes confidence"\nor "out of faith comes trust".\n\nNot sure of the origins. The words could be used with religious sense but in other ways too.