Does it mean that you have bone stuck in your teeth? Or your going to pick something out of your mouth? What could this really mean? Does it really have anything to do with bones. It comes from a long way, wild pack animals will scavenge for the carcass only after the alpha male of the pack has finished. Having a bone to pick means establishing dominance like the alpha male of a pack. This comes from a Sicilian wedding ritual, an ancient ritual, at dinner’s end of a wedding, the Bride’s Dad would give the groom a bone and let him pick the bone clean. This meant that the groom had complete dominance over his wife and the last word on any big decision like the alpha male of a animal pack. The expression means wanting to pick a fight vs someone.
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Geeks, lurking in technology forums arguing over which gaming console is the superior one in the current market and how the sales of the newly released games have been going. These people, these human beings are called “Geeks” they spend most of their time in school at the computer room. But why are they called Geeks, does it have anything to do with Greeks? No not at all, since the 15th century, geek or geck was used to describe a low-life fool. In carnival slang, someone who bites off the head animals such chickens or snakes. At the very start of the computer era and all the technological stuff. But through the evolution of computer technology, celebrating their geek status, skilled computer operators have managed to change the meaning of this word which described the low life fools.
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I mean what does the hobby actually mean? It has no roots to anything related to fun or pastimes. We all know what a hobby is, it is something we do pass our time and have some fun. But most hobbies are done for ourselves and not for someone else which is what separates it from work. People express their individuality in hobbies, such as sports or many of the other hobbies existing. The word originates from the child’s toy, hobby horse, which was a stick made out of wood with a horse’s head. Kid’s would emulate riding a horse with it for fun. So since then anyone doing something for escapism and pleasure, not for money, that something was called a hobby.
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