Where's the beef (from)?
Sorry. Some day I will give up on ridorkulous headlines, but then I will be out of a job, so not today. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had a lead on the origin of the phrase "got beef with," or the...
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The noun sense may be derived from the verb (to beef = to complain, argue, etc.) which is cited in the OED a few years earlier. That in turn might be derived from or related to a slightly earlier...
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Thanks--it may be speculation, but it's very logical and well-informed speculation, which is way, way more than I had.As a side note, in noodling around the Internet looking for an answer to this...
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"And now for a bit of bad news: no one is entirely certain of how "beef" became slang for "an argument" or "a complaint," a usage which first appeared in the U.S. during the late 1800s. It is entirely...
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Some day I will give up on ridorkulous headlinesI can only assume that, as a genre of style, it's an improvement over the funkadorkic antics of my 70's salad days.
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"my 70's salad days."Are you saying that the 70s are one's salad days, or that the '70s were your salad days? ;-)
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Damn those apostrophe's. Well I'm hoping the 70s will be my salad days so that my just desserts are yet to come, since the '70s, as salad days, were in the soup.Was that an early Reverend Jim...
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You all are cracking me up. Thanks for the answers, and the laughs.
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