Since you guys seem confused by it, monday morning quarterback comes from the fact that most football games are played on Sunday. Second-guessing is sort of correct but not really and definitely not in the way y'all probably are thinking. It's more somebody who criticizes someone else with the benefit of hindsight, like telling a QB what decision to make in a game once it's already been played.
Yes. Criticizing after the fact, having had several extra hours to think, being under no pressure, and without proof that your suggestion would have worked better.
Many highschool play on Friday & college (or University) play on Saturday Sunday is national. Even so all don't usually meet again until Monday morning.
Monday morning quarterback means "it's easy to say in hindsight." It's that guy that comes into work on Monday morning and talks like he knows everything that the team should've done to win. I'm sure soccer fans are the same way, after the match is over fans are all like "they should've done this and they should've done that." It's easy to say after the game is over what they should've done. It can also be applied to everyday situations, like if one of your co-workers makes a bad decision it's easy to say afterwards that you would've done it differently.
@@Dormy69 I always heard: 1st base = kissing 2nd base = touching or fondling above the waist 3rd base = stimulation below the waist Home plate = sexual intercourse
John Hancock's signature is well known, not because it was fancy, but because it was very large (twice as big as the others) .... so the king could see it. We rarely hear that anymore.
DEPENDS on your age I guess... I use it almost daily when having people sign invoices and such... "Put your John Hancock right on the bottom line by the X"...
Legend has it that after John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence with the largest signature, he exclaimed, "There! John Bull can read my name without spectacles and may now double his reward of £500 for my head. That is my defiance." John Bull being a derogatory reference to the English King/government in general. That was pretty standard knowledge about 1960 or so when I learned it.
Most of the signers of the Declaration thought they would be hanged for treason. Many lost their lives, homes or fortunes. When someone asks for your John Hancock they want you to sign your name and pledge your Life, Fortune and Sacred Honor with your signature.
It was a brave move because they were all essentially signing their own death certificate by signing at all, but John Hancock was like, "F it, let him see it in big print."
The term "carpetbaggers" started to show up for real after the Civil War around the late 1860's when the Northerners would come down and bring their belongings in a Carpetbag. They had a pretty bad reputation so they were mostly trying to swindle whoever they could. If you've ever seen the movie Gone With the Wind they show up in the South trying to make money off people's misery. Anyhoo, you guys did pretty good -- you actually knew some of those sayings! Good Job! ❤
A carpet bag is just a bag made from carpet material. If you've ever seen "Marry Poppins," the bag that she takes all of that big stuff out of is a carpet bag. They were very fashionable in the northern US in the mid to late 1800s, but they never really caught on in the south. So you could immediately recognize a northerner if they were carrying a carpet bag.
The term "carpetbagger" comes from the luggage the Northern people would bring when they moved to the South. They had bags made from old carpets, because it was durable, and cheap.
It comes from the era after the American civil war, when opportunistic northerners came down to take advantage of buying cheaply particularly Southern estates in financial distress. Watch the movie "Gone With The Wind" to see the southerners talk about "Yankee carpetbaggers" with their luggage literally made out of carpet.
Mary Poppins had a carpet bag in the movie. And for that matter was an outsider swooping in to solve other people’s problems. Though carpet bagger has the connotation of either not understanding the local situation or just trying to exploit the opportunity for themselves.
"Bought the farm" came out of WW2 era. Remember the scene in "Band of Brothers" when the soldiers are told to make sure they sign their families up to get money if they get killed in action? That amount of money, at the time, was roughly enough to pay off the family home or farm. So if a soldier died in combat he literally "bought the farm" for his family.
Getting to first base is like holdings or slight kiss, getting 2nd to second base is like really making with petting and some intimate tounching, getting 3rd. base doing almost everything but not all the way and a Homerun is going all the way with you partner. And you two have made it to the Major LEAGUES in baseball terms.
All were familiar and ones I've used, except "pork barrel politics" which isn't really the phrase as I know it. Instead, we talk about "pork" as politicians specifically getting funding for things (not necessarily really needed, but like a bridge or fancy park) within their own district, sometimes in exchange for their vote on a congressional bill (potential law)
Pork Barrel politics, shortened later to 'pork' referred to the practice of giving government contracts to supply pork to the military to companies that help get them elected. The meat was often inedible or rotten due to substandard preserving.
Pork barrel politics IS an old phrase for exactly what you described. Nice job. The phrase predates me but I remember it and it being shortened over the decades.
The version of the phrase most Americans are more familiar with today is "pork barrel spending," which is the practice of including spending for a project in a bill that that project usually has only the slightest connection to. For example, there could be a bill to increase federal funding for education in rural areas, and a congressman representing a certain area could add an amendment that includes funding to massively overhaul a small airport under the guise of, say, "providing training opportunities for the aviation industry." Education-adjacent by mere fact that the education would be taking place at an airport, sure, but that's an infrastructure expenditure, not within the purpose of an education bill.
One of the cleverest plays on “pork” and “pork barrel” was from Senator Joni Ernst when she made her initial run for the Senate. Her introduction of herself to the American public in a commercial that went viral on RU-vid was thought to be what launched her political career. It has become a classic that can still be seen on RU-vid. To anyone who’s unfamiliar with it, look it up for a good laugh.😂
I know all of these phrases, but I'm in my 50s. Most of these were used by people in my parents' and grandparents' generations (except for "jonesing"). I think I learned most of them from old movies, tv shows, and cartoons, so I'm not sure if people in their 20s would even know these phrases now, much less use them in conversation.
I'm in my 30s and there were only a few we would use like plead the 5th and for the birds but we would say that shit is for the birds. I know what john Hancock is but haven't heard anyone really use it anymore the adults used to say it.
Bought the farm comes from WW1. When a soldier joined the military he would get a life insurance policy for 10,000 dollars paid to his family. The cost of a average farm was 10,000 dollars, so if the soldier was killed it was said that he bought the farm. Now it is used to say someone died.
Not only was John Hancock the first signer, but he signed it in a large font, compared to the other signers, so that King George wouldn't miss it. It was a big deal because everyone who signed it declared themselves a traitor to the king.
Another possible interpretation: Often times airmen would say "After this war is over I'm going to settle down and buy a farm". When an airman died in a plane crash they were then able (in the spirit world) to do what they said they wanted to do while they were alive. "Buy the farm".
So, regarding the 1st base, 2nd base, 3 base, etc., there's also the term "striking out" which means that you failed and/or were rejected. It can apply to any failure, but it started with the meaning of someone being rejected by another person who was being pursued.
They're called "monday morning quarterbacks" because American football games are normally played on Sunday, so, they're second guessing somebody's actions with the advantage of hindsight.
From the internet: "...how 'dukes' came to mean 'fists' is that it derives from the Cockney rhyming slang - Duke of Yorks -> forks -> fingers/hands." Also see "Duke it out" meaning to fist fight.
I had a boss that I worked with, way before the two of you were born. He was from England, and one of the best guys I ever known. He is not here now, he passed away. He came here to the states with his best friend, who was Scottish. I remember one time him saying.. "Oh don't mind him, he is from Scotland".
We also use rain check in shopping in my area. If there is a sale, or you have a coupon, but the (usually supermarket) is out of product, you can get a rain check to apply it to the product after the sale ends or the the coupon expires.
I remember that printed on (or on the back) the baseball ticket it says "Rain Check". That ticket has the date, so when you go to another game you simply show the ticket and the clerk verifies that the rain date is valid and you get a new ticket for that "other" game. Currently I'm not sure how it's validated when electronic tickets are generated.
A rain check was also when a store advertised something on sale. Sometimes they would run out and they would give you a rain check so you could still pay the sale price when the item came back in. Now they just say supplies limited.
I've read a lot of comments (not all, so sorry if this is repetitive) and no one has yet addressed "behind the 8 ball". In a standard (American) game of pool, one person tries to shoot in all the solid balls, while the other shoots in all the striped balls. But the 8 ball is the very last ball you shoot in once you've shot all your other balls in. If you shoot in the 8 ball before you shoot in all of your balls, you automatically lose. Being "behind the 8 ball" is referring to a really tough spot or situation, because if the 8 ball is blocking a pocket on the pool table that you want to shoot one of your balls into, but you can't because it would shoot the 8 ball in before your ball went in, you are literally behind the 8 ball and have to find some other way or risk losing if you take the shot. It's kind of like the saying, "between a rock and a hard place". (Basically, the 8 ball always goes in last, so if the 8 ball is blocking your shot, you can be SOL.)
Behind the 8 ball means you're stuck. If you hit and knock the 8 ball in before your other balls, you lose the game. In some versions of 8 ball pool, it also makes it a dead ball and you lose your turn.
As an American this was actually very funny and entertaining thanks for this! great work! Also some of even I haven't herd of lol which makes it more entertaining.
I'm 40 and there are some I didn't know either. A lot of it is where in the US you are from. I'm in California, so I'm not going to know things said in the south.
@@briancallaway1690 Which ones did you not recognize. Carpetbaggers is kind of slang but also a historical term. I remember it was discussed in my high school US history textbook as part of the lesson on Reconstruction.
The National Football League (NFL) traditionally plays on Sunday. The Quarterback calls the plays. Monday morning quarterback is the guy that has all the answers for what you should have done after something happens (with the benefit of all of the information)
Some stores in America will have an item on sale...lets say a TV and they will run out of those TVs on the day of the sale,so they will give customers a rain check which is a price of paper that promises that they will sell the TV for the sale price once they get more in. You bring the rain check back a couple weeks later and you can get the tv for the sale price.
John Hancock famously wrote his name the largest on the Declaration of Independence so the king could read it or something like that and so when you are to sign your signature people say stuff like "i'll need your John Hancock" or something like that
A great use of 1st, 2nd, 3rd base is the song "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meatloaf. In the middle of the song, the announcer for the New York Yankees gives a baseball "play by play" of how well his date is going with a girl he likes.
American football is mostly on Sunday. Monday we tend to talk about the games. If a team lost by a couple of points we usually talk about how they could have won if they did this or that. That where the term started, Monday morning quarterback. However, it has expanded to encompass just about anything that should have been better if they would have done it a different way.
The reason why it's your signature as in John Hancock is because, John Hancock had so much dislike for the British ruler that he wanted the king to know it was him who signed the declaration of independence that he written it so bold and much larger than anyone else.
John Hancock was president of the 2nd Continental Congress when the Declaration of Independence was adopted. The fun story is, he had signed his name extra large, so the king could read it without his glasses. In reality, he was originally going to be the only one to sign the document, since he was the president of the congress. It was later decided that all in attendance should sign. The rest signed smaller, so as to leave room for all of the delegates. Hancocks signature is not just larger, its also were you would put a signature if you were going to be the only person signing something.
" more than you can shake a stick at." "Can't never could." "Not worth a hill of beans." "Finer than frog hair." "Like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs." "Fair to middlin'."
Of those that signed the Declaration of Independance, John Handcock was the largest and most flamboyant. It was a "fly in the face of King George" and I'm not afraid to do so. Now it means your official signature on a paper
Keeping up with the Jones- is when people usually neighbors try buy what their neighbor have if they buy a new car you go buy yourself a new car if they buy new furniture you go buy new furniture ,and if the husband buys his wife a new vacation trip you take your wife on a vacation trip etc….
It originated in sports, but many stores will give you a raincheck if an on sale item is soldout. You get the raincheck and can come back when they restock the item and still only pay the sale price even though the sale may be over.
I've heard P. T. Barnum originated the phrase when one of his showpieces couldn't be delivered on time, so he arranged for the people who had come to see it to get to come back and see it later.
One of my favorites is “for shits ‘n giggles”. It means you’re doing something for no reason except to amuse yourself; for fun. For instance, “he’s the type of person who angers people online for shits ‘n giggles”.
"For the birds" means something that is completely worthless. For instance, if you buy a gizmo and it falls apart the first time you try to use it, then you say, "this thing's for the birds."
I thought he said "shoot the beans" and I said what? (in my best James accent.) I only say shoot the breeze around my mom. Otherwise, we shoot the shit 😂😂
Have you heard of "a shotgun wedding" that's when people suddenly get married after getting pregnant....back in the olden days a father would find that his daughter was pregnant and take her boyfriend and her to get married by force with a shotgun. 😂
Someone Bought the Farm can mean someone died or it could be used to mean someone screwed something up royally and got themselves harmed on that attempt at something. If someone says " he Bought the farm on that one" it means the person screwed up on that attempt like going off a motorcycle jump for example and then ended up crashing to ground. It is most often used to mean screwed up on an attempt than used to mean the extreme of someone actually "buying the farm" in referring to outright having died.
The legend I heard when I was a little kid back in the 1970s was that, when the signatories signed the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock heard that the British King (King George I think), had a difficult time reading without glasses. In order to make sure he saw his name, Hancock wrote it extra large, dwarfing everyone else's signature (and put it right in the middle of the document). This was to throw mud in the King's face, basically.
This is a reference from just after the American Civil War. Back in the day, luggage was sometime made from carpet like woven tapestry fabric. It was cheap luggage which people used when they rushed to the south after the war to take advantage of various business opportunities. It's usually used to negatively portray people who rush to exploit a situation or others.
taking a rain check refers to the practice of going later, the saying was derived from when you have tickets for say, a baseball game (any outdoor sporting event) and it's cancelled due to being rained out, they issued paid ticket holders "rain checks" where they could attend the event at a later date.
"Shoot the breeze" - Millie had the right idea, wrong breeze. Talking requires breathing and pushing air out, i.e. making at least a little bit of breeze, so you are shooting out breeze when you talk. It especially applies to mindless chitchat that has little more significance than the breeze the talk makes.
Bought the farm means the persons death would payoff the mortgage due to life insurance, whether a soldier killed in battle getting a death benefit, or just a homeowner with life insurance.
As an American, I have to say this was hilarious! I’ve heard these phrases all my life but it was funny to hear you guys struggle with most of them to try and figure out what they meant. I really enjoyed this! 😂
“Bought the farm” comes from when people would have have life insurance policies and when they died the payout would be enough to pay off the loan for the farm. Therefore when they died, they would “buy the farm”
I am American and have heard all of these at least a few times but most are pretty old and not common and i had trouble putting into words what they meant as in context they make more sense but without it's hard to remember.
As I understand it, first base is kissing, 2nd base is breast, 3rd base is lower down. As a Texan, I know we have a lot but it's hard for me to think of any at the moment. I have seen your reaction to Liar, Liar; it was good.
Also getting to home base is obviously going “all the way.” These baseball terms referring to stages of hooking up are only used by kids, not adults so nothing about dating or getting to know someone, just the specific physical stuff.
It's not really the same. Bought the farm is war slang for being killed in action, while kicked the bucket just means "died". In the first world war, soldiers might say they were saving up their pay to buy a farm after the war was over. If they were killed, the death benefits would go to their family who might use it to pay off their mortgage. But more directly, the soldier's death was payment for a six by six by three foot plot of land were they could "push up the daisies from underneath". A shorter form of that, "pushing up the daisies", is another euphemism for being dead.
Football is played on Sunday night. So on Monday morning, all the people "You should have done this, you should have done that" are called monday morning quarterbacks (now that they know how the game turned out, its easy to tell people what they should have done)
"Behind the eight ball" comes from pool, and means that you're in a difficult position. The eight ball is only shot after the other balls are sunk, and if you hit it before, then you lose the game.
In 8-ball, the first ball you hit with the cueball on each shot has to be one of yours, either 1-7 or 9-15. Hitting the 8 with the cue ball first is a foul. And sinking the 8-ball early is an instant loss. So if the 8-ball is between the cueball an your ball, you have to bank the cueball off a wall in a way that it eventually hits your ball. So taken literally it would mean that you are in a hard spot to get out of. But how its commonly used is just being behind. Say you show up late to a marathon an it has already started, the officials may say something like "we will still let you race if you want, but you are behind the 8-ball." Or you may have homework from last week due in the morning that you have not started. Your parents may tell you your behind the 8-ball.
Professional football games were played on Sunday. The Quarterback used to actually call the plays as well as execute them. On Monday morning, everyone became a critic and pontificated on what the Quarterback SHOULD have done. I.e., "Monday morning Quarterbacking". It's still prevalent - and not just limited to football. "Carpetbaggers" post civil war who came down from the north actually often carried bags made of carpet. "Pork" in politics is a reference to money spent by politicians, usually with a quid pro quo connotation. A politician known for getting monies appropriated for his state or district is said the be known for being able to "bring home the bacon". "Bought the farm" is used to say someone died, usually in a high risk activity. Lastly, you have hit a Home Run. ; )
"Bought the Farm" people purchased farms with mortgages and had life insurance policies. When they died; their life insurance would be used (by their widow) to pay off the mortgage -- They Bought the farm = they died=They kicked the bucket.
Monday Morning Quarterback is really someone who second guesses, it’s someone who comes in after the situation has already happened and says what they would have done that would have made the situation turn out better, like they’re trying to quarterback the game on Monday that was played on Sunday.
Quarterbacks call the plays, on Monday people have the benefit of hindsight to say “should have done this” Carpet bags were durable traveling bags made from carpet that people would use when moving a good distance.
The expression (getting or going to) third base is slang for sexual contact with genitals, especially when it happens for the first time between two people.
With a home run being coitus, getting to first would be kissing and hugging, second base would be more than hugging BUT still over the clothes, and third base would be touching under the clothes, or three quarters of the way to full sexual intercourse.
My understanding 1st: Kissing, 2nd Touching above the waist, 3rd touching below the waist, 4th...where pregnancy can occur if it is between opposite sex.
John Hancock's deliberately made his flamboyant signature large but not out of arrogance. He was quoted as saying "There. Now fat King George can see this all the way from England." The U.S. Navy had a destroyer named USS JOHN HANCOCK. Instead of using the traditional block lettering to spell out a ship's name on the stern John Hancock's signature was replicated.
Rain check is very commonly used when an item is on sale but they are out of supply. You used to get a rain check, that promised the product at the sale price once back in stock. It doesn’t seem so common a practice nowadays. If they’re out of product, you’re out of luck.
"keeping up with the Jones'" There was a famous family that was wealthy named the Jones family. They had a well known store. The phrase still exists, the store doesn't.
"Behind the 8 ball" means you are stuck with no options (or no easy options). In the rules for 8 ball billiards, you have to hit one of your balls (stripes or solids) with the que ball (the white one you hit with the stick) when shooting before hitting any of the other balls in order for any balls you pocket to count (so on combination shots you can't hit your opponents ball first). Nobody is allowed to directly hit the 8 ball until they've pocketed all their other balls first (then you sink the 8 to win the game). So if your que ball is lying in a position where you don't have any good shots because the 8 ball is in the way, you're "behind the 8 ball".
When we say “that’s for the birds” where I’m from we mean that’s garbage or not a good thing. The reason is, because you would give birds leftovers/“garbage”.
Boston phrases: "Bang a U-ie"; "We're going to the packie"; "I'm gonna get a frappe"; "Pike it out to Wistah"; "I'm going thru The Teddy"; "Roxy, Rozy, Dot, Southie, Eastie, The Town"; "Baked Schrod"; "Frickin' or Friggin'..."; "Fluffernutter"; "Green Monstah"; "A Sub";
When I moved to Vermont a phrase I heard for the first time was door yard. Apparently it refers to the yard where the front door is. I just called it front or back yard. So even in different areas of the US they have their own phrases
On Saturday's Yankees game there was a lazy fly ball described as "a can of corn." I hadn't heard that phrase for many years and still don't know about its origins.
Monday morning quarterback - college football games are normally played on Saturdays and professional football games are usually on Sunday, so on Monday is when everyone discusses and second guesses all the plays the coaches called and all the plays the quarterback called, as the quarterback calls all the plays on the field....thus Monday morning quarterback.
Professional American football is usually played on Sunday. A Monday morning quarterback then, is a fan who watched the game the day before and (usually critically) picks apart the team's performance. Usually with an 'if only "I" was in charge' attitude.
Being "Behind the 8 Ball" is never a good thing. It comes from the game of Pool and it stands for the situation where you're only shot is to hit a ball, where the 8 ball is between that ball and the cue ball. In strict pool rules, if you hit the 8 ball before your ball, you loose your turn, so being behind the 8 means you are in a difficult situation.
Monday morning quarterback. When I was a kid, football games were played locally as follows: High school - Friday night, College - Saturday, Pro - Sunday. Way back when, the quarterback was the leader of the team, and called which plays to run. Those who talked about any of those games at work on Monday morning telling all what HE would have done, would be a Monday morning quarterback. See also, armchair quarterback for those who watch the game from their recliners (armchairs) and pontificate on coulda, woulda, shoulda. And then they started up with "Monday NIght Football" (the one game a week played on Monday night to increase sagging network ratings) and messed it all up.
A lot of these terms are very old school and a lot of people don't even use them as daily slang or turn of phrase anymore. Monday morning quarterback, for the birds, and plead the fifth are still used though.
I feel like "Monday morning quarterback" is a party that I just was not invited to, because I am American and have never heard it in my life, but it seems like plenty of people in the comment section are familiar with the term.
@@TylerLarew you are either 13 or grew up on an isolated farm in the wilderness. ;) Seriously listen. In the next year you will hear it at last a dozen times if not more.
A carpetbagger was originally a Northerner who moved into the South after the Civil War as a politician, or bureaucrat. Currently, someone who runs for office in a state or district where they have no ties. Such as Robert Kennedy running for Senate in New York, when he had lived his whole life in Massachusetts. So called as someone living out of their suitcase, a “carpetbag”. The
No, actually Bobby Kennedy was about six months old when old man Joe packed up the family and moved them to NYCity in Bronxville. Joe thought the Back Bay Brahmins would never accept them socially. And by and large they didn't. NY society wasn't as prejudiced to Catholics. Hyannisport was mostly for summer.
The original Joneses were a very ostentatiously wealthy family from Connecticut who sent their children to the finest schools and who lived in the emerging culture of upper-class 1950s suburbia. Thus was born the concept of "keeping up with the Joneses" because all their friends and neighbors felt they had to keep up with them and follow the example of conspicuous consumption that they set.
This video review was way "up my alley". A lot of these examples were "a piece of cake" to me. I love how some of your guesses were way "off base". "Knock on wood" you will have more great videos like this one. 😁😁
Behind the 8 ball is a very old expression. I have not heard anyone say that in decades. Definitely not a. modern expression. For the birds is also a very old expression. Not sure where he got these expressions from. Maybe old movies. If you went to a mall and asked 100 people at random what pork barrel politics means, I guarantee at least 98 would not know. Put up your dukes is what a little kid would say back in the 50's and 60's. It means "we're going to fight". To buy the farm is also old school. Does not mean dying. It means dead. He bought the farm means he died. I swear he found these expressions in a 20th century book of idioms. Kissing is 1st base. Touching above the waist is 2nd, below the waist is 3rd and if you go all the way, home run.
I've said most of them in the last 10 years. I've never even heard of "pork-barrel politics", however. I've always said "behind the 8-ball", "put up your dukes", "bought the farm", and "it's for the birds". Then again, all of those saying can be found in the old cartoons that I grew up with, so maybe I just use older language because of that.
@@Real_LiamOBryan pork-barrel politics refers to waste built into bills being passed. I've heard all of these, but then again I've lived all over the US and that might lead to differences based on region. I'm also in my mid 50's. Many of these I heard well into the 80's, but new lingo was common starting in the 90's
"Jonsing" is often (🤔or was) used as a drug dependence thing if you were "jonsing" for another "hit" of your drug its just on the coming down part i.e. getting the shakes ECT
It’s so hard for me to understand Scottish people 🤣 I forget until I get a THICK accent like this but oof i didn’t think he was speaking English at first 😂
In America when somebody says they bought the farm that means they kicked the bucket they're taking a dirt nap they're takin a nap six feet under, also known as they died.
"Behind the 8-ball" = in at least one of the games you can play on a billiard table, I think it is called 8-ball but may have other names, in the course of shooting the balls into the holes that you are supposed to, if you accidentally knock the 8-ball into a hole, you automatically lose; so if the cue ball has come to rest at an edge with the 8-ball blocking it, you cannot take a desirable shot, so you are trapped 'behind the 8-ball.' You have no good options and have got to take care to extricate yourself from the circumstances.
A lot of great football games take place on SUNDAY night so the day after is Monday so a lot a fans who watched the game talk about what”should have happened” second guessing the football team especially the Quarterback who usually gets the credit for the win and the blame for the loss so it’s called MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING
