"Nut up"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Nov 14 04:43:38 UTC 2006
Just heard "nut up" used on the Daily Show with the meaning "man up."
When I was a teener in Saint Louis in the 'Fifties, "nut up" meant to
laugh demonstratively, å la mode de Sammy Davis, Jr.
It's interesting that the motivation of each slang meaning is
crystal-clear: nut = "testicle" and "emotionally-disturbed person."
-Wilson
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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep
a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.
--Sam Clemens
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