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when my grandfather used the term it was meant to imply something had age he would talk about an item that came around the horn of South America
I think it is referring to Cape Horn in South Africa that ships circumvent in traveling in that area. It has nothing to do with music.AnswerThe "Horn" is Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, which has some of the wildest wind, waves, rocky shores and currents in the world, and was especially difficult and challenging for sailing ships to travel westwards (into the prevailing westerly gales). So "rounding the horn" was a significant accomplishment.
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um normally with a fork knife ans spoon? what does this question mean? and why would we eat diffrently
A horn can be a musical instrument, a safety feature on a car, a protrusion on the head of an animal, a way to butt in on a conversation, or a new years noise maker.
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Billy-be-hanged from the book, By the Great Horn Spoon,mans something really scary
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Man full of stuffing
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It means youll win
"Reach for the sky or I'll send you there pronto" means to raise your hands in surrender or face consequences. It is a line commonly used in Western films or stories to intimidate someone into complying with a demand. In "By the Great Horn Spoon," it is used by a character to threaten another person to obey or face immediate action.
In the novel "By the Great Horn Spoon!" by Sid Fleischman, "by grabs" is a humorous phrase used by one of the characters to mean "by gravity." It conveys the idea of something falling quickly or with force.
It's a very old-fashioned American oath. A horn spoon is just a spoon made out of horn, like cow's horn - people used to carve their own spoons back before mass industry made cheap metal eating utensils. There have been hints that the saying originally referred to the Big Dipper, and was used by sailors.The first record of this saying was in a song from 1842 called "French Claim" -The more he thought on't it the madder he grew,Until he vowed by the great horn spoon,Unless they did the thing that was right,He'd give them a licking, and that pretty soon. It doesn't really mean anything other than "I swear" - but you know how Americans love using five or six words when one will do just fine!
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