![]() Sources agree it is based on Japanese Jan Ken Po or Jan Ken Pon (or Janken for short) the Japanese game is described in English publications by 1879. The rock-scissors-paper game is attested by that name by 1976 (as paper stone and scissors by 1941). The third man whose name is Pilgreen, and who works in the treasurer's office, simply remarked that the Germans were between a rock and a hard place. One remarked that the Germans were between the devil and the deep sea while another corrected him by saying that the Germans were between the upper and nether mill stone. ![]() ![]() As an example of fine distinctions, a party of men were discussing the present situation of the German army, this week. Common in Arizona in recent panics sporadic in California. Southwest: to be between a rock and a hard place, vb. Rock is used figuratively for "a sure foundation, something which gives one protection and security" (especially with reference to Christ), from the 1520s (Tyndale) but it also has been used since the 1520s as "cause or source of peril or destruction," an image from shipwrecks.īetween a rock and a hard place "beset by difficulties with no good alternatives" is attested by 1914 in U.S. Also used attributively in names of animals that frequent rocky habitats, as in rockfish, rock badger, rock lobster (the last attested by 1843). slang the sense of "crystallized cocaine" is attested from 1973 in West Coast slang. The meaning "precious stone," especially a diamond, is by 1908, U.S. It is an error to use rock for a stone so small that a man can handle it : only a fabulous person or a demi-god can lift a rock. The extended sense of "a stone of any size" is by 1793, American English colloquial, and long was considered incorrect. In Middle English it seems to have been used principally for large rock formations but occasionally of individual boulders. Diez suggests Vulgar Latin *rupica, from Latin rupes "rocks." According to Klein and Century Dictionary, sometimes said to be from Celtic (compare Breton roch). World Cafe Words and Music Podcast U2 turns their rock anthems into intimate affairs on Songs of Surrender Flipboard March 17, 202312:54 PM ET From By Raina Douris, Miguel Perez Listen ·. , Middle English rokke, roche "stone as a substance large rocky formation, rocky height or outcrop, crag," from Old English rocc (as in stanrocc "stone rock or obelisk") and directly from Old North French roque, variant of Old French roche, which is cognate with Medieval Latin rocca (8c.), from Vulgar Latin *rocca, a word of uncertain origin.
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