2018年6月22日 · The "womp womp" or "womp womp womp womp" sound affect seems to be part of whatever sound effects and music library is widely used in making lots of the amateur/low-budget kids videos on YouTube, and probably ships as part of the standard effects library in some popular video production application.

2014年3月26日 · The name "womp womp" to me conjures up a different sound [not sure where to most easily find it] which smears the first three notes together [it's a trombone after all]. – supercat Commented Jun 22, 2018 at 15:16

2016年10月24日 · Early occurrences of 'catawampus' and its variants in the wild. The earliest instance of the spelling catawampus in Elephind search results is from "A Few Days in the Diggings" (an article about the California Gold Rush) in the [Springfield] Illinois Daily Journal (February 24, 1849):

2011年5月11日 · 'Wog' is a word first applied to local inhabitants (Chinese) by British troops stationed in Hong Kong, B.C.C. The British High Commissioner issued a bulletin to all British troops to refrain from using racial slurs when referring to the Chinese and Indian inhabitan

2020年5月16日 · I'm not too sure how well the book link works, but it's an article from 1923 about not having envelops to seal ballots so they "for want of a wire on which to string the ballots, they stacked them in piles after they were counted, and tied them, thus piled, with strings two ways and sealed the strings with chewing gum where the knots …

I heard this tally ho in a youtube video (British). I also heard it in the movies "Jack the Giant Slayer", and "Spiderman 1". I understand it's some kind of expression or exclamation or idiom to sa...

2023年3月23日 · The idea that stepping on a rake meaning repeatedly making the same mistake might be influenced by a (slightly famous?) scene from The Simpsons (from the episode Cape Feare, S05E02), where the character Sideshow Bob repeatedly steps on multiple rakes.

2022年1月16日 · I am a native French speaker and I do work as a translator in the legal field, and literature (mainly fantasy). I need an explanation for ‘tapped on the shoulder’: As for full-time appointments, the