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... it was referred to as "one for the road." If he declined, that prisoner was "on the wagon."
Ooops...I've just been informed by the friend who e-mailed this that both are FALSE. I also looked it up on Snopes; apparently this is another urban legend. Sorry! (Snopes writers assume that "on the wagon" is most likely a variant of "on the bandwagon," to identify oneself with a political movement or social cause.)
Maybe this will make some Texans uncomfortable, but it's all perfectly true:
Gail Borden, a journalist living in Brooklyn, was covering the Texas-Mexico War, and wanted to come up with a memorable phrase for one of his articles. It appears that he succeeded admirably.
Incidentally, Borden later abandoned journalism. He devised a method for homogenizing milk, and founded a little company that went on to have some success. It was called Borden's.
I thought of one more. Tweekers is a nickname used for methamphetamine users. It was explained to me that this comes from combining the words "two weekers" because apparently meth heads get so hyped up on the drug that they go very long periods without sleeping, even up to 2 weeks.
Cool. A modern, suburban cliche / saying. Way to go...yo!
"That really gets my goat!" I heard this originated from a time when landowners / farmers used to race horses for sport. Often they would put a goat in the stall of their horse to keep it calm the night before a race. A wily opponent, looking to gain an edge, might steal the goat during the night hoping to increase his or her chance of winning. Thus "get my goat" as in "inconvenience / bother me" was born.
One is that with original printing presses, the type characters for p and q were the same. So printers had to be careful not to reverse the characters, thus making a q where a p belonged and vice versa.
The other relates to drinking beer. As in "mind your pints and quarts"...As in "don't drink too much."
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Get your / my goat...
