- Origin of and why knock the socks off? - English Language Usage . . .
We often hear the subject expression and " knock someone's socks off " and it is not difficult to understand what it means The Link shows what it means and how it originated: Overwhelm, bedazzle, or amaze someone, as in The young pianist knocked the socks off of the judges, or That display will knock their socks off [Slang; mid-1800s] or Also, knock the spots off Surpass or outdo completely
- What are the origins for the phrases Knock it off and Cut it out?
When taken literally, the colloquial phrases "Knock it off" and "Cut it out" do not seem to mean "Stop what you're doing " How did these two phrases get their current meanings?
- etymology - Is there a connection between Having a chip on ones . . .
The New York newspaper Long Island Telegraph reported on 20 May 1830 "when two churlish boys were determined to fight, a chip [of wood] would be placed on the shoulder of one, and the other demanded to knock it off at his peril"
- I usually knock off at 6 - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
2 Merriam-Webster, an American dictionary, also has a definition that would allow "knock off work" intransitive verb: to stop doing something transitive verb 2 : discontinue, stop <knocked off work at five> I am American, know this definition, and would definitely assume that someone meant "stop working" if he said "I usually knock off at 6"
- Knock yourself out: what meanings does it have? [closed]
Here's the text: A: Nobody's fed me all day and I'm still part of this family B: There's a sandwich in the fridge Knock yourself out! What does it mean by knock yourself out?
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The confrontational challenge to knock a chip of wood off someone's shoulder does after all appear to be the correct derivation Circumstantial evidence is all we have to go on here, but that clearly points to a 19th century US coinage
- slang - The meaning of schneid (not sure of the spelling) in colloquial . . .
People in the UK still use 'snide' to mean 'fake' in the 'knock-off' sense (a cheaper copy, not always passed off as the original), so people talk about 'snide Rolexes', perfume, designer bags, etc Recently in the UK, 'snide Canada Goose jackets' have been a thing, and people have been mugged for them as well as the real ones (they are worn by
- Does knockoff, meaning copy, come from the German word nach?
Nach is German for "after, in the manner of" To knock something off means to do it quickly, in haste, and that meaning gets extended to "quick replica"
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