AI
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:45:47 PM
Legs being pulled here. I hope for the sake of the jackaxx they don't detach! LOL
Pull one's leg. When you pull a person's leg you are spoofing or making fun of him, usually in a good-humored way. But that wasn't always the meaning of the expression. When the expression first turned up in Scotland about a hundred years ago, it was lacking the lighthearted touch it has today. In those days 'pull one's leg' meant to make of fool of him, often by outright cheating. The best theory of the origin of the phrase is that by tripping a person--pulling his leg--you can throw him into a state of confusion and make him look very foolish indeed." From "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollinsPublishers).
He preached, and at last drew the auld body's leg,
Sae the Kirk (church) got the gatherins o' our Aunty Meg.
The suggestion in the rhyme is that Aunty Meg was hung (sic) for a crime and, at the end, the preacher pulled on her legs to ensure that she was dead. The...more sombre overtones of this possibility than are apparent in the British use of the phrase are mirrored in the American usage, where there is much more a feeling of trickery and deception when the saying is used.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/9/messages/906.html
RSHN
Pull one's leg. When you pull a person's leg you are spoofing or making fun of him, usually in a good-humored way. But that wasn't always the meaning of the expression. When the expression first turned up in Scotland about a hundred years ago, it was lacking the lighthearted touch it has today. In those days 'pull one's leg' meant to make of fool of him, often by outright cheating. The best theory of the origin of the phrase is that by tripping a person--pulling his leg--you can throw him into a state of confusion and make him look very foolish indeed." From "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollinsPublishers).
He preached, and at last drew the auld body's leg,
Sae the Kirk (church) got the gatherins o' our Aunty Meg.
The suggestion in the rhyme is that Aunty Meg was hung (sic) for a crime and, at the end, the preacher pulled on her legs to ensure that she was dead. The...more sombre overtones of this possibility than are apparent in the British use of the phrase are mirrored in the American usage, where there is much more a feeling of trickery and deception when the saying is used.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/9/messages/906.html
RSHN
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