What is the origin of the phrase "you silly sod"?
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Sod is a contraction of "sodomite" so it is basically a curse. I think "silly sod" became popular via Monty Python' Flying Circus. At least that is where I think I first heard it.
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I believe it is from the use of rhyming to emphasise something being great! As in "the bees knees". This then became "the mutt's nuts", which translated into non-rhyming is "the dog's bollocks". WHY? I don't know.
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It is actually unknown where the term originated, though it is often incorrectly identified as being attributed to the Harvard Computation Laboratory team*.  In 1947, team members there traced a problem in their Mark II computer to a moth trapped in a relay.  The term "bug" was already known to them, and finding a real one screwing up their machine was so funny that they saved it and made a note in their logbooks: "First actual case of bug being found".\n\nThe term was used in WWII and even prior to that in reference to engineering problems.  A letter from Thomas Edison dated 1878 even makes reference to them.\n\n*It is worthy to note that it is believed that the Harvard team DID coin the phrase "debug".
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I've used that expression with friends before as a joke. It's a silly over-doing-it way of saying that you're great.\n\nA friend of mine who's female brought me a soda one day without me asking (long story but it was super hot that day and we were working outdoors) and I said, "Oh my god, marry me!" We had a good chuckle about it but that's all. Likewise another time I got a backrub from a female friend and I was enjoying it so much I said, "Will you have my children?" \n\nIf he said it was a joke, it probably was. He just thinks you're really cool. he may even think you're hot, but he's still probably joking.
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I think you mean bollocks.it is a slang word for the testicles.
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There are several theories for the expression's origins. All are heavily debated. Like many expressions it is almost impossible to fully trace its origins unless there are some sort of identifying markers found in derived Latin expressions. The below are some of the most popular origins for the expression, but cannot be conclusively proven.\n\nTraditional Theory\n\nIn the U.K., the most common idea of origin for the expression comes from tradition. Historians know from the time of King James I and Shakespeare's King's Men that actors would on occasion receive tips on top of their salaries. Rather than receiving tips directly from the company or theatre, tipping was left to the audience. During the final bows or curtain call, audiences would throw money, usually coins, onto the stage depending on how well they enjoyed the performance. In some bad performances they would throw rotten vegetables, but in the good cases, money. Actors would then 'take a knee', effectively breaking their leg line, on stage and pick up the money. As a result when you wishs someone to 'break a leg' it refers to wishing them success in their performance so in end they would have to kneel down and collect a welcoming tip. Theatre evolved and the tradition of tipping changed. This tradition led to the tradition of throwing flowers on stage, as well as presenting flowers. The expression continued through theatre as it was still applicable and later became tradition.\n\nAntonym Theory\n\nBreaking one's leg is not a good thing to hope for - therefore by some superstition, if "good luck" causes bad luck, then the perceived bad luck of breaking one's leg causes good.\n\nBowing\n\nThis theory is thought to be an extension of the Traditional Theory. For the curtain call, when actors bow or curtsy, they place one foot behind the other and bend at the knee, 'breaking' the line of the leg. In theatre, pleased audiences may applaud in which time encore bows sometimes occur. On Broadway this is considered the highest compliment to an actor. In wishing someone to 'break a leg' you are ultimately wishing them to bow many times effectively causing them to 'break a leg'. A continuation of this theory is joke where you wish someone to bow too many times that they 'break a leg'.\n\nGreek Origin\n\nIn the time of Ancient Greece, people didn’t applaud. Instead, they stomped for their appreciation and if they stomped long enough, they would break a leg. Or, some would have it that the term originated during Elizabethan times when, instead of applause the audience would stomp their chairs – and if they liked it enough, the leg of the chair would break. [1]\n\n\nLincoln Theory\n\nPopular etymology derives the phrase from the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth, the actor turned assassin, leapt to the stage of Ford's Theatre after the murder, breaking his leg in the process. The logical connection with good luck is none too clear, but such is folklore.
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The phrase is supposed to have originated in England in the 17th century when city streets were filthy and heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals. \n\nThe idea that seeing dead cats and dogs floating by in storms would cause people to coin this phrase is just about believable. People may not have actually thought the animals had come from the sky, but might have made up the phrase to suit the occasion.
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it means f**K It.\n\nNo, actually, it is not Damn it.  Sod is a word for sex (explicit) as in "Sod off, you!"
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It refers to the comic strips.\nCartoonist Roy Crane wrote a comic strip Called "Wash Tubbs" in 1935. He visited St. Marys, GA and sat on the porch on the second floor of the Riverview Hotel and got ideas for his strip. He featured local landmarks and people in his strip. When the strip come out the local people would look to see who was used for that particular strip. The saying "See you in the funnny papers" arose from that experience. Another local item he featured was the Model T Ford truck with a wooden passenger enclosure on it that ran on the railroad tracks between Kingsland and St. Marys, GA. This was dubbed the Toonerville Trolley.
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SOD  - Stupid Old Joke\nBOL - Burst Out Laughing\nMMS - Made Me Smile\nPOC - Pile Of Crap(In Reponse to a stupid joke)\nLOS - Load OF Sh*t(In Reponse to a stupid joke)
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Now you're just being silly.
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It is basically a slang word for ones posterity, or buttocks.  It was more commonly used in the 1930's in the black community.  Another similar word is DIASTICURIOUS!
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lol I have got laugh at the way you asked your question (its cute)       lol\nmy teen boy say it all the time to their girl friends just over anything.\nthen of course my teen girl chime in with GROSS.!!!\n\nI don't know where the saying came from sorry .
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It's a euphemism for "damn hell" originating in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, when many such euphemisms became popular, such as\n\nGee whiz\nGosh darn\nCrimeny\nJeez\nDash it all\nHoly cow\nHoly moley\nCripes\n...and many, many, many more.
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Just as a turtle's head appears from its shell,\nSo too must a turd appear from the buttocks.\n\nThis phrase was popularized in Austin Powers II, when Fat Bastard said he was "turtleheading."
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It often implies that you have made a serious mistake, but more strictly it indicates that something you have done (or some turn of events) has left you looking extremely embarrassed or foolish.\nIt feels like one of those expressions that have been around for ever, but the evidence suggest that it’s an American expression from the middle of last century (its first known appearance was in an American television series about 1951). It’s possible, though, that it is somewhat older, though I haven’t been able to find it in my large collection of out-of-copyright e-texts, which suggests it is more recent than the 1920s.\nI know of two possibilities for where it came from. My assumption to start with was that it was a comment on a minor social gaffe at a meal, when poor manners or sloppy eating left egg around your mouth. The late John Ciardi, however, suggested an origin in the lower and more rowdy kind of theatrical performance, in which an incompetent actor would have been pelted with eggs and forced off the stage.\nAfter I wrote the first version of this piece, subscriber Cal Clifford put a possible new perspective on he expression by mentioning egg-sucking dogs: “Occasionally, a trusted, working farm dog would develop the bad habit of taking eggs from nests and eating them, turning himself from asset into liability.” I found several examples of the term, including this from Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor, dated 1902: “His chief business was the doing away with dogs of ill-repute in the country; vicious dogs, sheep-killing dogs, egg-sucking dogs, were committed to Alan’s dread custody, and often he would be seen leading off his wretched victims to his den in the woods, whence they never returned.” And in Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp, by Annie Roe Carr (of about 1919): “He’s a miserable, fox-faced scoundrel, and I’ve no more use for him than I have for an egg-sucking dog.” So it is just possible that the expression might be a figurative extension from that of a dog found with egg around its muzzle, mute evidence of depravity.
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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