Why is there a drink called 手打柠檬鸭屎香 = “hand-made lemon duck-feces fragrance”?

if the headline asks a question, don't read the article, answer all the things you know! :)

From a quick google ‘Raclette’s most distinguishing feature is its aroma, which might charitably be described as pungent. (Actually, it smells like something left to rot for a few months in a gym locker filled with dirty sweat clothes.)’

* "You can't have your cake and eat it, too": might be better phrased as "can't eat your cake and have it, too". The idiom is stuck in its given form, however.

* blow job: I have read this etymologically arose from "below job". there are occasional humorous anecdotes related to native speakers misunderstanding it as well

* first off: never really thought about this before. I would suppose it comes from metaphorically popping the first of many arguments off of the speakers mental list.

* ladyfinger: it meant long like fingers, the lady part meant to indicate slender or delicate. there was a plant called ladyfingers as well

In British English, the phrase means "have you got a cigarette (fag) you'd be willing to give me for free (bum)?"

It can still mean borrow.

"fag" obviously has different meanings, but the phrase just wouldn't parse for most Americans.

I think we just usually learn it early enough that we don't tend to think much about what the words mean individually. More like it's one word that just means the meat product, or same product on a bun.

> - Toad in the hole

Sausages in batter. Not sure where the sausage==toad equivalence comes from - its not used anywhere else.

> - bangers and mash

Sausages with mashed potato. This one has the most meaningful name, assuming you know that bangers == sausages (which is a common equivalence).

> - bubble and squeak

Left-over potatoes and other veg, fried up. Again, this term is only used in this context.

All of these are classic Brit cuisine.

It's an older version of "under" I guess. The weird thing is that the word "substance" has such a similar looking construction, because it literally means that which stands beneath.

English in general uses a lot of seemingly random direction words in phrases, like "party down", "man up", "buckle up", etc.

Which comes to English from Old English and its Germanic origins. 'Unter' and 'Standen' are the Germanic equivalents today, signifying the original intent, to stand together on something.

'Comprehend' from the Normans' French (and Latin before that) is much easier to grok für Ausländer in this case.

Maybe it's more of an acquired taste, but I don't find it particularly refreshing or good, and only drink it for the nostalgia (which is really just nostalgia of family vacations - I only lived in Scotland as a toddler). I don't drink a ton of Coke (depending on year, Coke and Irn Bru alternate top soda sales in Scotland) either, but on a very hot day, after a long bike ride or run, a small Coke hits the spot.

Like the popular song by Hall & Oates, she's a man-eater.

It carried through Greek and Roman healing practices and was common in medieval European healing, as well.