A good one, worthy of Flatears. It means a muscle ache caused by
excess labor. The online etymological dictionary assumes it's named
for an unknown lame horse. I'm assuming that's not the whole story.
While hat's being pondered, how about cooties? Do British kids get
them? In US kid slang they're an imaginary affliction which renders
one distasteful in obscure ways. How it got from the actual bug is
the question.
Mark
At 11:31 AM 5/8/2009, you wrote:
>Mark Weiss wrote:
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>>Anybody got any ideas for the origin of "charley horse"?
>Cocaine-smugglers' drug mule
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