Timeline for What does “have the avocados” for anchorman work mean?
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| Nov 12, 2013 at 18:01 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 0:39 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | It should be noted that the todayifoundout link is incorrect in its etymology: ahuācatl as the name of the fruit does not come from the word for testicle, but vice versa. Just like in English, testicles can be referred to as ‘nuts’ (naming them after a fruit if sorts), so the Proto-Aztecs at some point started calling their testicles avocados. The word subsequently became the standard word for testicle, as well as for avocado. That the writer chooses this particular fruit in his version of this idiom might be coincidental, or it might be because of the word’s meaning in Nāhuatl. | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 22:35 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2013 at 14:49 | comment | added | jmadsen | I think "huge pumpkins" would get the point across, although it might also be used with a woman | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 13:00 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Love this list. My favourite? Australian boys and twigs and berries Altho' "Do you have the twigs and berries for anchor work?" does lose gravitas, somewhat. | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 11:03 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @Jmadsen. How about "Rocky (or Ron) had huge 'pumpkins,'" which is a popular round object? | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 9:10 | comment | added | jmadsen | also, it should be at least a little bit "manly". "I have the pingpong balls" prolly won't do :-) | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 9:00 | comment | added | J.R. | @YoichiOishi - You'd want to pick something that has the right shape and size. That might rule out eggplants, I think. But yes – I have the snails to say it – you can be creative and invent your own; with sufficient context, most listeners will figure out that you are euphemizing. | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 8:48 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @Jmadsen. If I say “have apples (grapes, oranges, pears, tomatos, potatos, eggplants, eggs, bulbs, beads, pingpong balls, bubbles, baloons, snails, ball rearings), do they all pass as “have guts”? | |
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| Nov 9, 2013 at 8:35 | comment | added | J.R. | @Mari-LouA - Indeed, that one is the granddaddy of them all, I assumed we were discussing only the somewhat-less-vulgar variants. I didn't have the avodacos to quote that one directly :^) | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 8:16 | comment | added | jmadsen | you did far too much research :-) Assume anytime we talk about "having the <round objects>", the round objects are a euphemism for "testicles", and means the courage or "guts" | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 7:49 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Do you have the balls? Is much more common, albeit less exotic sounding. I had no idea about avocados, I'll do my utmost to insert the expression in conversations from now on. :) | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 7:12 | comment | added | J.R. | You have surmised correctly. I wouldn't call it common; a similar one I hear more often is have the stones. | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 6:55 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2013 at 6:49 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |