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or other animal saying--
In our house if something fell short of perfect alignment-- it was likely to be condemed as "Crooked as a ram's horn"
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[crooked]
We always refer to con men and other suspicious characters as "crooked as a dog's hind leg."
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Surely most of these sayings are "Tongue in cheek."  wow
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um, i was kinda happy that this thread was dying. even with cable, it takes forever to load. thanks, wow. [ch*tongue*eek grumbling emoticon]
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How about "gird your loins"....however, not sure what it means...maybe I wouldn't mention if I did????
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"Gird your loins" is nothing obscene... it admonishes one to prepare (mentally and emotionally) for a tough task at hand.
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And on the clothing theme we could speak of pulling onesself (one's self? oneself?  ) up by one's bootstraps.
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In reply to:
"Gird your loins" is nothing obscene... it admonishes one to prepare (mentally and emotionally) for a tough task at hand.
Yes, I know that's what it means, but why does it mean that? It's obviously a metaphor, but what is the original loin-girding that gave rise the metaphor?
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Actually, "to gird one's loins" originally meant to put on the accoutrement of war, the sword belt which hung low across the loins. I can't discover exactly how old it is, but I would suggest Anglo-Saxon or Norman. The meaning later drifted to the action itself. "Gird yourself for something." Now it just means, as has been said previously, to get ready to do something.
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Actually, "to gird one's loins" originally meant to put on the accoutrement of war, the sword belt which hung low across the loins. I can't discover exactly how old it is, but I would suggest Anglo-Saxon or Norman.
Older I think, CapK - the imagery is used in the Bible as well, at Ephesians 6:14, and 1 Peter 1:13, according to a interlinear translation I have.
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