Timeline for Is 'I f*cked the dog' an actual idiom and are there alternatives
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| Jul 17, 2015 at 1:08 | comment | added | ErikE | @MatthewRead Okay, I concede that people use it, but it doesn't make sense. It just makes me think "jerking what around?" And around isn't a very good preposition for the action being suggested. It seems to me an ignorant portmanteau or malapropism combining "jerking off" and "screwing around." | |
| Jul 17, 2015 at 1:04 | comment | added | Matthew Read | @ErikE "To be jerked around" and "to jerk around" are different, though. The latter is the same as "to jerk off" in the sense of messing around. Lots of examples. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | ErikE | In my experience "jerking around" is incorrect, it would be "jerking off". To be "jerked around" means to be forced by another to go through meaningless steps (that on the surface have the appearance of legitimacy or effectiveness) with the purpose of delaying or blocking one's own aims. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 0:01 | comment | added | DCShannon | +1, I'm familiar with this usage, and similar ones such as "quit screwing around", "quit fucking around". | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 17:03 | comment | added | GentlePurpleRain | @Sprottenwels: You may be correct. Perhaps it doesn't apply as accurately as I thought. | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 17:02 | comment | added | Wottensprels | I always thought that jerking around would involve stupid jokes and/or childish behaviour? | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 16:59 | history | answered | GentlePurpleRain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |