[Ads-l] salty

[Laurence Horn]

Just watched an interview with one of the (white) U.S. Olympic women hockey players. She had scored the first goal in the game last night but was on the local TV coverage because she had attended Choate, near here.  She was asked how she felt after settling for the silver in 2014 and 2010 and she responded “A bit salty”.  Thanks to ads-l (and urban dictionary), I know what she meant, but I was interested in the fact that “salty” seems to have made this jump.

LH


> On Feb 16, 2018, at 2:13 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>> It's similar to the phrase 'jump salty,'  to become mad or angry.
> 
> One of my brothers came up with the very same definition!
> 
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Margaret Lee <
> 0000006730deb3bf-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> 
>> It's similar to the phrase 'jump salty,'  to become mad or angry.
>> --Margaret  Lee
>> 
>>    On ‎Wednesday‎, ‎February‎ ‎14‎, ‎2018‎ ‎09‎:‎23‎:‎12‎ ‎AM‎ ‎EST,
>> Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> I always try to "bust cool."  As in _West Side Story_.
>> 
>> JL
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:14 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> A Late Summer’s Fire
>>> https://books.google.com/books?isbn=152450405X
>>> Sandra Rorie - 2016 - ‎Preview
>>> I didn't know if I was going to be quiet and not confront him. It
>> wouldn't
>>> do any good. I knew from many times in the past that he would just _break
>>> nasty_ and still deny that he was having an affair with this woman.
>>> 
>>> The UD, 2005:
>>> Break Nasty
>>> (v): 1. to go the hell off on someone
>>> 2. to inform someone of their monumentous mistake
>>> the meanest way you possibly can
>>> 3. to inform someone of their incompetence
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I use "break nasty on," but one of my brothers, about twenty years
>> younger
>>> than I am, prefers "break nasty with." He learned the phrase in
>> Sacramento,
>>> whereas I learned it in Los Angeles.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> -Wilson
>>> -----
>>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
>>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>> -Mark Twain
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>> 
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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