Timeline for Origin of "cracked the sh**s"
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| Sep 21, 2017 at 1:21 | comment | added | Anthony Kong | I had a discussion with some aussies the other day and they think the phrase is more pom and is not exclusive to Australia. e.g. it is used in Leicester | |
| May 5, 2013 at 0:19 | comment | added | ianjs | @tinyd As I mentioned "Cracking a tinnie" has none of the sense of anger that is implicit in "crack the shits" so it a different case altogether. It's usage is no more than to "open" a can, albeit with some enthusiasm given that a tinnie is invariably beer :-) | |
| May 3, 2013 at 8:45 | comment | added | tinyd | I like the answer @hugo - the "crack a tinnie" idea also forms a nice analogy with "open up a can of whoop-ass". That doesn't make this derivation true, of course, but it's nice all the same :) | |
| Apr 29, 2013 at 3:16 | comment | added | ianjs | The "in the shit" in terms of "in trouble" doesn't quite seem to fit either. It feels to me to be more related to something like "I was shitty (upset,angry) about it" | |
| Apr 29, 2013 at 2:50 | comment | added | ianjs | Good answer @hugo, but my feeling is that the "crack" in "crack a tinnie" is an unrelated usage. My (completely unsourced) intuition is that it is onomatopoeic: the satisfying "crack!" as you pop the top of a beer can. There are, however, other usages in some of the comments that I didn't think of which are closer to the sense we are looking for- your "Crack a sad" being a good example. | |
| Apr 28, 2013 at 10:25 | comment | added | Hugo | "Crack a sad" and "chuck a sad" mean the same thing as "crack the shits", perhaps they're related. | |
| Apr 28, 2013 at 10:08 | history | answered | Hugo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |