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Bugging the tar out of me - origin?
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:10 pm
I have heard this phrase so many times. Where did this phrase originate?
Google failed me, I am confident the wisdom of the OT will not
Google failed me, I am confident the wisdom of the OT will not
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Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:11 pm to TexasTiger01
Never heard it even once.
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:11 pm to TexasTiger01
Herman Melville
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:13 pm to TexasTiger01
Started as bothering me
Became bugging me
Added curse word made it Bugging the (expletive) out of me
Southern rednecks made it Bugging the tar out of me
You're welcome.
Became bugging me
Added curse word made it Bugging the (expletive) out of me
Southern rednecks made it Bugging the tar out of me
You're welcome.
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:13 pm to TexasTiger01
It's from Shakespeare's Hamlet
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:16 pm to tigahfromtheham
it actually is from Melville
so to do something to the extreme is to squeeze/beat/knock the tar out of it
quote:
It is from an old sea phrase, to "squeeze all the tar out of the ropes"
so to do something to the extreme is to squeeze/beat/knock the tar out of it
This post was edited on 4/28/16 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:16 pm to TexasTiger01
"Tarnation" is an 18th euphenism designed to allow god-fearing folk to express seriously strong emotion without actually blaspheming. It comes from "darnation" (a watered down form of "damnation") and "tarnal" (southern slang for "eternal"). Put them together (and adjust for regional drift) and you get "tarnation" = "eternal damnation". Tarnation shortened is tar.
You are bugging the hell out of me.
You are bugging the hell out of me.
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:17 pm to tigahfromtheham
this actually seems more likely and probably evolved completely separately from the Melville origin i just referred to
Posted on 4/28/16 at 3:25 pm to tigahfromtheham
The guy who write Alice in Wonderland? Is it a reference to opium?
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