Ever Wonder...
Have you ever heard the phrase 'everytime a peanut'? What do you think it means? I was listening to the radio yesterday and thought this was pretty funny...
Option #1:
Origin: comes from when you stick your hand into a bag of mixed nuts, hoping for an almond/fruchoc/macademia nut and you get a peanut - everytime!
Use: used when the same annoying thing just keeps on happening.
Option #2:
Origin: comes from carnivals where carneys used to yell out 'everytime a coconut' when you continuously threw a ring over something dodgy at the ring toss stall.
Use: used when the same bad thing just keeps popping up.
Origin #3:
Origin: comes from those men you see with a monkey playing music. What are they called again? But everytime the monkey does the right thing, he gets a peanut.
Use:used when you get a silly reward for doing the same thing over and over again.
Bizzare phrase. I think we should insert it into regular rotation. Along with the word 'scweet' - a cross between 'score' and 'sweet'. By the way - which origin do you think is actually the right one?
Annie
2 comments:
Never heard the saying here in the states... However, that thing the monkey plays is called an 'Organ Grinder' :-)
haha!! i've never heard of that before... were you listening to Hamish and Andy on Fox Fm?
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