Timeline for What does "come the nut-cutting" mean?
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| May 13 at 20:17 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @terdon — don’t forget my favorite “yarbles”. Joey calls his “my misters”. | |
| May 13 at 20:16 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | While “nut” is just one of the more common of then many, many slang terms for testicle, the expression “nut-cutting time” is not in common use, even for a ridiculously low bar of “common”. Google N-grams could not find a single use of it. | |
| May 12 at 16:29 | comment | added | Fattie | @JConstantine I'm afraid (like any number of random home-made pages on the internet) I plain disagree with that internet page. However, great point and nice find. the key fact here is, as everyone has said, the phrase in the movie is used in the utterly NORMAL way it is used in everyday spoken language, there IS NOT ANY SPECIAL 'connection to the plot or theme' etc. It's just a common idiom - end of story Hence again, the OP should ask on the excellent ELL.stackexchange.com web site because it's a straightforward question about English. | |
| May 12 at 13:52 | comment | added | JConstantine | @Fattie idioms.thefreedictionary.com/nut-cutting%20time | |
| May 12 at 12:02 | comment | added | terdon | @Fattie whatver gave you that idea? There are loads of slang terms for testicles, even excluding the vulgar ones. Just off the top of my head: nads, rocks, stones, junk, and you can find quite a few more here or here. Although some are indeed very obscure or localized uses, many are not, and claiming that "only two words" are used for testicles in English is just silly. Which is not to say that the phrase here isn't about them, of course. But let's not go overboard. | |
| May 11 at 19:07 | comment | added | Fattie | @JConstantine NO it has NOTHING to do with hardware nuts and bolts. As every single person here has repeatedly stated, nuts means "testicles". End of story. ("nuts" or "balls" are the only two words used in English for testicles.) I urge you to ask English question like this on the outstanding ell.stackexchange.com site, it's grea | |
| May 11 at 6:08 | comment | added | Rosie F | +1 for explaining "nut-cutting". "Come (point in time)" is a familiar idiom template. "Nut-cutting" needed explaining for those of us who didn't know the story. | |
| May 11 at 0:13 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @JConstantine — a little boy was at the zoo and saw the elephant in a state of arousal. “What that?” he asked. “Uh, it’s nothing,” his mother told him. The next day, his dad takes him to zoo and the same thing happens, only the dad answers, “That is the elephant’s penis.” The boy says “Mom said it was nothing. “Son, your mom is a very spoiled woman.” No, “nut-cutting” is not a reference to cutting a rusted nut off a bolt. Ask any mechanic. | |
| May 10 at 18:22 | comment | added | JConstantine | Or we can think of it as having to cut a nut off or away from a bolt because rust has immobilized it to the point where there's no other way to remove it. | |
| May 10 at 17:55 | history | answered | Michael Lorton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |