This has to do with a stranded Arab with a camel who lost his ability to walk. To survive the arid heat, he had to "bust the hump" (a very difficult task) of the camel to get nutrition and hydration.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one meant to start a fight. A buffalo's hump was right behind his head. The image is of a cowboy jumping up and crawling onto someone's "hump" to attack them.
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Andy Maio invent this phrase in the early 70s
I was told that the phrase originated with the famous jazz player Charlie Parker. Whose drug and alcohol addiction had caused massive damage to his internal organs, including severe stomach ulcers. Supposedly he laughed at something so hard it caused his ulcers to rupture and perforate his stomach lining which lead in turn to his heart attack and death. Giving origin to the term Bust a Gut.
From a Laurel & Hardy movie.
Wednesday is at the middle point of the week so from there the weekend is a "downhill coast" Thereby the phrase wednesday is Over the Hump, or Humpday!
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from joey in friends
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Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one meant to start a fight. A buffalo's hump was right behind his head. The image is of a cowboy jumping up and crawling onto someone's "hump" to attack them.
Please refer to the song "my humps- black eyed peas"
1820-30
from girls ...to hissy...
in concord and lexington.
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It means working your tail off ... OK that did not help ... So to answer your question ... It refers to a Camel ... a Camel stores there water in the hump the more the camel has to work... By traveling with cargo on it's back or with a person ... The Camel has to drink more of it water from it receive ...That being from it's hump... Making it's hump get smaller and smaller ... So because there is not water left you get busting ...as if a bottle had bust ...