OT Phrases That Don't Make Sense

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  1. Fairly-Hard

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    More than one way to skin a cat.

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    Having a jam session....not sure how "jam" became slang for playihng music or music itself like "kick out the jams"
     
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    Getting stoned....did that come from an ancient punishment for smoking hash?
     
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    Figures the resident pirate would be the one that can definitively say a witches tit is cold.
     
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    Right, same I had no idea.
     
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    A reference to Dorthy and Toto? :dunno:
     
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    Here's one I honestly don't know about. Is "calling a spade a spade" a racist term? I could make an argument either way.
     
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    Why are assists in basketball called dimes?
     
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    I've always assumed it was because a dime is the smallest coin, and the implication is that the pass was so precise that it could hit a dime squarely. Much like the phrase "stop on a dime", meaining the ability to stop almost instantly.
     
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    I've always heard it as colder than a witches tit in May, which makes even less sense.
     
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    The lowest figure on the totem pole is the most respected though. So, the way it's used is ass backwards.

    So, they are cold huh...ok
     
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    Anything uttered out of a cat's mouth.
     
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    It didn't start out that way. It originally just meant calling out something for what it was, and refered originally to the garden spade. In the 1920's it began to be used to refer to black people and is listed as one of the many slurs against them. It came to refer to the card rather than the garden instrument, and spawned another racist saying, black as a spade. Several black civil rights leaders and poets worked to take it back. So, yes it is a racist term, or at least became one.
     
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    Since witches were traditionally burned at the stake, it's fair to say their body parts were hot, not cold.
     
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    It's mostly done as a way to discount native american culture.
     
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    That makes sense.
     
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