BARNEY'S BULL

PRONUNCIATION: (bar-neez-BUL)

MEANING: noun: Someone or something in a very bad condition or situation.

ETYMOLOGY: Apparently from a popular 19th-century pantomime in which an escaped bull is chased by various characters until the exhausted animal
s captured by a farmhand. Earliest documented use: 1834.
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BLARNEY'S BULL - Yes, it is

BARN EYES BULL - Ferdinand gets looked at by an owl

BARNEY SKULL - ...and all this time Hamlet's been using the wrong name