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Origin of tan someones hide as in Im gonna tan your hide Doubling back to Brockett's 1825 glossary, and an 1830 publication by Robert Forby (Vocabulary of East Anglia, a vocabulary which the title page advertises as having been collected in the last two decades of the 1700s), I observe that two other survivals (along with 'tan your hide' and 'lam') from the 18th century suggest the close association
Origin of “in your corner”? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange have someone in your corner Boxing: To have the support or help of someone A boxer's ringside support staff – second, cut man, etc – are in his corner, and assist him between rounds If someone is in your corner, they are supporting you and helping you It's good to know that whatever happens, he'll support me and be in my corner
Where did Shakespeare get milk of human kindness from? Going to your quote, Macbeth is too full of milk; in humoral terms, his bodily fluids are too far off a balance that would lend itself to ambition Lady Macbeth is remarking that, in how Macbeth has been raised, he lacks the ambition to commit regicide Macbeth needs more heat, either in the form of choler (yellow bile) or pure blood
expressions - Origin and meaning of You catch more flies with honey . . . It comes from catching flies I think your main problem with this is, why would you catch flies? The reason could possibly be put down to catching flies to get rid of them However, the underlying meaning of this idiom is that , you would experience more success if you were to be nice, rather than be un-nice
meaning - What does work on my tan mean? - English Language Usage . . . Work on in this sense in the literal sense means that they are going to try and become more tan You could say: "I am going to work on my car" in this case, it would mean to fix repair "I am going to work on my thesis" in this case, it would mean that they are working towards the completion of their thesis There is a lot going on in this
How does Ill have your job! translate to getting someone fired? It's just the threat of taking something away from someone I'll have your job (taken away from you) Or like FumbleFingers said "I'll have your hide!" taken from you Doesn't mean you'll be the one who ultimately gets it though, it's out in the open
What does on a hiding to nothing mean? - English Language Usage . . . but in what sense is the hide in hiding contributing the meaning of the idiom? Here, "hiding" is a noun used as a colloquial near synonym for "a beating" According to the OED, it goes back to activities involved in tanning a hide, related to the verb hide 2, "2 To beat the hide or skin of; to flog, thrash"
phrase requests - A word for the heart-wrenching pain of wanting . . . Bardic Performance Rules Question - Lingering Performance and Moving in the Turn Order Without Skipping Your Turn Are indefinite noun-phrases permissible as subjects in Biblical Hebrew? Prove that it's always possible to remove one rook so that the remaining rooks still satisfy the same property of no empty ranks or files
slang - The meaning of nailed in the conversation - English Language . . . One way to understand the word nailed in this context is as a short form of the idiom "nailed [one's] hide to the wall " Here's the entry for that idiom from The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1997): nail (someone's) hide {or (vulgar) ass} to the wall {or barn door} to punish or otherwise put a finish to (someone)