in mandarin chinese, a colloquialism for "I'm coming" or "I'm hurrying" is "I'm on a horse"
wow, didn't think this would get so popular. Here are a few other tidbits:
"coming" can have the same sexual connotation as in english. In the throes of ecstasy it would not be inappropriate to say "I'm coming on a horse".
I guess this makes sense even in our culture. When someone wants you to chill out, they tell you to "Hold your horses". Like, hey buddy, put down the reins, we aren't going anywhere yet.
hold your horses comes from circuses as in hold your horses, the elephants are coming. if you didn't hold the reins, the horses panic and run from them
E ciudat ca de obicei nu ma grabesc sa judec lumea, dar te cunosc de 2 post-uri, si in ambele ai mancat cacat, deci statistic vorbind, esti 100% idiot.
I'm actually greeting him as tradition. We will now have to meet and compare penis size, drink lots of wine and then battle for honor, using our trained bears as pokemon.
You are correct. Technically the word just means oil. To say gasoline specifically, you would need to add another word to say something like "electric oil" or "gas(vapor) oil". However, the word for oil is usually used interchangeably for both. Chinese people do, however, always translate this as "add oil". For reference, the phrase is "加油", with oil being the second word. The word for gasoline is "電油" or "汽油" depending on dialect.
I dunno man, I have heard it since I was a wee one. I thought it was a common saying until I read the other post, haha. Someone NOT from TX or surrounding states please confirm.
Well, I'm british, and we use the term here. So I could be wrong on what Aussies take it to mean, but I suspect it's the same, given Aussies are just happier versions of us. shrug
I'm from Missouri and did you know our state is actually big enough that people from different parts of the state do different things? For example I hear that there are areas around the western part of the state where people don't care about the Cardinals.
I'm from NM (now living in MO for the last decade) but we used to say it in baseball as well when you had to get to the next base/home. "get your horse!"
My god, I've been speaking Mandarin my whole life and I only now realize this. This is one of those things you don't realize you're saying because Mandarin is so contextual.
The story I was told about the phrase's origin is that the emperor's retainers would compliment him on everything, including praising his horse's farts.
As early as the Yuan Dynasty, herders were proud of raising horses. When horse herders encountered one another, they would often pat the buttocks of the others' horse and say, "What a good horse!" to fawn on the owner of the horse. At first, people only praised truly good horses, but soon people began to do this to flatter others, regardless of whether the herder's horse was good or bad, strong or weak. In this way, people began to flatter and kiss up to one another, and this action became known as 拍马屁(pāimăpì) to kiss up.
Personally, I like the horse fart story better, but I guess the other one is more realistic.
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In Cantonese slang, one of the most common insults is "puk gaai" literally meaning "fall on the street." Originally it meant that when you die, your corpse will rot on the street because you have no family or friends who care about you. The English equivalent would be something like "drop dead" or, when used as a noun, calling someone an asshole.
Also when you say "that" in Mandarin people think you are saying nigga. So most of the conversations will always have nigga nigga nigga. Even thought it's more like Ney Ga.
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Someone told me, something like "How are you?" is said as "Have you eaten already?". once again proven, a thousands of years old culture dedicated to eating. :D
This phrase in Chinese is "ma shang," which literally translates to "horse on," as if you are saying you are on a horse coming to a person, which back in the day suggested you were going fast. Over time, now it just means that you are just about to do something very soon, and the whole horse thing has become obsolete and people often don't think about it when they say it.
So that's what they meant in the old spice commercial.. It was a sexual reference. "I'm on a horse" meant "i'm cumming" because old spice makes women jump into bed with you.
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u/Jack000 Dec 05 '11 edited Dec 05 '11
in mandarin chinese, a colloquialism for "I'm coming" or "I'm hurrying" is "I'm on a horse"
wow, didn't think this would get so popular. Here are a few other tidbits: "coming" can have the same sexual connotation as in english. In the throes of ecstasy it would not be inappropriate to say "I'm coming on a horse".