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American slang for male masturbation dates from the early 20th century. Most of the words connected with male masturbation have an association with sl...
In the sense of describing something unusually large or big, as in ‘a whacking great rump steak’, is British slang from the early 19th century. See al...
A great time, a greatly enjoyable time, where the word whale is used as an intensifier describing something on a very large , great scale, with the o...
see Oh what a tangled web we weave
see Give someone what for
Sometimes in the form of what goes round comes round means that for every action, there is a consequence, which can be good or bad. It is a fairly mod...
see Just what the doctor ordered
see Knowing what's what
A modern form of 'what's-his-name', a phrase used when one cannot remember the name of person. 'What-his-face' dates from the mid-1960s.
There is a whole host of proverbs that proclaim that what is good for a man is equally good for a woman and they all date back to The Middle Ages and...
This expression means, ‘what’s going on?’ or ‘what’s happening?’ and derives from the 18th century use of the word pot in the sense of to make or manu...
Bugs Bunny made this catchphrase popular from the Bugs Bunny cartoons and comic strips that started in the late 1930s. The catchphrase itself was firs...
Almost a nonsense word with various spellings, except that it is in fact a compressed form of ‘what you may call it' and describes something, the name...
see Float someone’s boat
This was coined by Shakespeare in King Lear, Act V, Scene III, when Edmund says, “Thou hast spoken right, t’is true; the wheel has come full circle; I...