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- Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from?
The term 'Jonesing' enters the language as junkies and dealers come and go from the alley next door Shelley doesn't say whether the Daily News provided any documentation for its tendentious equation of Mingus + Great Jones Street = "jonesing"; but it almost certainly did not Indeed, the timeline item rather cleverly avoids claiming any
- How did the archaic villein transform into villain?
Palmer was jonesing for some coke again Origin 1960s: said to come from Jones Alley, in Manhattan, associated with drug addicts Jones Alley is a small dead end street in the middle of NoHo, a curently upscale neighborhood in Manhattan The neighborhood flourished from its establishment in the 1820s until its first peak in the 1910s, then it
- What is the origin of thats using your noggin?
I find myself using the phrase "that's using your noggin" in various situations, even though English is not my native language Most likely I picked it up watching some tv show I understand that "
- to no end - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The OED discusses no end in the context of end, which is noted as of Old English Saxon origins to mean 1a "the extremity or outermost part (in any direction) of a portion of space, or of anything extended in space; utmost limit," and 1b "a limit of magnitude or multitude "
- etymology - What is the origin of the idiom jig is up? - English . . .
I believe the origin is in the dance, as in "dancing a jig " "The jig (Irish: port) is a form of lively folk dance in compound meter, as well as the accompanying dance tune
- What is the origin of the phrase hunky dory?
Nobody really knows There's no agreed derivation of the expression 'hunky-dory' It is American and the earliest example of it in print that I have found is from a collection of US songs, George Christy's Essence of Old Kentucky, 1862
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