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Cultch & Clutter:

Cultch is defined as:

n. 1. Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

2. Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached.

3. Rubbish; débris; refuse.

Clutter is defined as:

Noun 1. clutter - a confused multitude of things

2. a condition in which things are not in their expected places

Fubar: Military term
F****D up beyond all recognition

Snafu: Military term
Situation normal, all f****d up

Bogus: circa 1737
Bill and Ted don't get credit for this one.
Bogus was the type of machine use to counterfit coins and then paper currency in the 1700's, and by the early 1800's, it had come to mean anything that was not real.

Three Sheets to the Wind: Nautical term
Sheets are ropes on a sailboat. To have a sheet loose in the wind is bad seamanship, to have three loose means you are not capable of controlling the boat.

Tip:
Tip is underworld cant meaning to pass on, to hand to, especially to pass on a small sum of money. It dates to at least 1610.
The verb meaning to give a gratuity dates to about a century later, and the noun dates to at least 1755.

Paparazzi
The Plural of Paparazzo, comes from the name of a character in Fellini's La Dolce Vita. In the movie, Paparazzo was a photographer who would go to great lengths to take pictures of American movie stars.

Pig in a Poke:
Back in the 1500's when farmers went to market they kept suckling pigs in a poke or bag. Some of them would try to sell you a bag containing a cat or some other small animal. So if you didn't look in the bag you were likely to get burned.
This is also where the phrase, "let the cat out of the bag" originated.

Pull the Wool Over His Eyes
The wool refers to a powdered wig. To pull the wool down over a man's eyes is to temporarily blind him. The phrase is an Americanism, dating to at least 1839.

The blind leading the blind:
This appears in the Bible. Matthew 15:14:
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

In like Flynn:
This refers to Erol Flynn, who was known for his juice with the studios and his luck with the ladies.

To Elvis
This phrase alludes to Elvis' habit of leaving suddenly to avoid getting mobbed by his fans.
"Her father came home early and I had to Elvis."

To Taco Bell
From their advertising slogan, "Make a run for the border."
"The cops came looking for him, so he decided to Taco Bell."

Some good pages on word origins
Word origins
UK word origins

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