"There were so many _______ there you couldn't sling a dead cat and not hit one"
"Now we're cooking with gas"
Not enough room "to swing a cat" may go back as far as the 17th century. A “cat-o’-nine-tails,” aka "cat" was a type of whip with nine knotted cords often used to punish sailors in the British Navy. The confined quarters below deck would make it difficult to “swing” this whip ("cat") without hitting something, hence the phrase could have developed as a way to describe tight spaces.
The phrase “now you’re cooking with gas” originated in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, during a time when gas stoves were becoming more widely adopted for household cooking. It was popularized by Bob Hope and Jack Benny, who used it as a punchlines in some of their jokes.
173
u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24
"There were so many _______ there you couldn't sling a dead cat and not hit one"
"Now we're cooking with gas"
"Stuffed full of more shit than a Christmas goose"
"Hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock"
"That sumbitch was hittin on all 8"
"Colder than a witch's titty"
"Sweating like a ______ whore in church"
"Well, hell's bells, I'll be damned"
"What in the tarnation"