"Deez Nuts" may be ultimately derived from Dr. Dre's album, Chronic, or merely juvenile silliness. But in 2015, the expression was popularized, or repopularized, by a viral meme created by Instagram user WelvendaGreat. According to knowyourmeme.com: "Deez Nuts is the punchline of a conversational joke that involves asking someone a vaguely-phrased question to solicit a follow-up question in ...
Deez Nuts ain't loyal is a variation on "These hoes ain't loyal" EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING, a line in a song by Chris Brown. Many people said "Deez" instead of "These", so a "Deez Nuts" Joke was inevitable.
1) I am going to go watch a game. 2) I am going to a game. 3) I am going to golf. 4) I am going to go golfing. What are the differences and similarities between and among sentences 1...
I read a interesting article regarding origin of the term "The Nuts" in Poker. It means the best possible hand and though a well known term, no-one seems to know its origin. Wikipedia gives the s...
It's very limited currency gangland slang in California. Loc = loco = crazy somehow morphed into being a generalised term for Hispanic members of certain street gangs. I think in context here it's the Latino equivalent of blood or homie as used by negro gang members (or plain guy as used by more mainstream speakers).
If you're an older American lawyer who came from the Ivy League, a well-educated Brit, or just really old-fashioned, you say fide as 'FIE dee' (rhymes with 'tidy') and fides as 'FIE deez' (rhymes with 'tidies'). If you say it this way (the traditional English pronunciation), many people will stare at you in confusion.
The aphorism was coined by the Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Don Meredith, who later became a sports commentator for the TV show Monday Night Football in 1970. 17 December 1970, Ada (OK) Evening News, pg. 7, col. 1: Howard Cosell: “If Los Angeles wins, it’s a big one, but San Francisco is still very much in it.” Don Meredith: “ If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry ...
Pleiades has two common pronunciations, neither of whose final syllables sound like those in ephimerides to me. Could you include a phonetic transcription to make it quite clear what exactly the pronunciations you're asking about are? FWIW, I've only ever heard ephimerides (like all other Greek -is/-ides words) pronounced as Wiktionary gives it, with final /ɪdiːz/ and antepaenultimate stress.
The plural of the full version is maîtres d’hôtel, as one would expect, but the plural of the shortened form is maitre d’s, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Note that: the full version has French accents, but the shorter one doesn’t. Also, the last syllable of the abbreviated version is pronounced DEEZ.
