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Using his love for comics as inspiration, teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides to reinvent himself as a superhero -- despite a complete lack of special powers. Dave dons a costume, dubs... More @Wikipedia
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- What exactly is "I'mma?" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange8. I'mma is a slang contraction of I'm gonna. It's common in some dialects; others use it only in an affected manner similar to lolspeak. It's good to know what it means, but I would only recommend adopting it yourself if you're quite comfortable with using slang and know when it's appropriate. Share.
- "To [put a] boot in the ass to do something" — uncertain meaningThe expression "a kick in the ass" (or, more mildly, "a kick in the pants") is sometimes used to refer to jumpstarting an individual, or getting a situation back on the right track, as in: "Our son needs to get a job!" "Yes, he needs a good kick in the pants."
- Meaning of the phrase "to blow smoke up someone's arse"Database search results. The earliest match in a n Elephind search that explicitly identifies someone's ass as the conduit for blown smoke (in a slang sense) is from John Anderson, "Billie Carr: The 'Godmother' of Local Liberal Politics," in the [Houston, Texas] Rice Thresher (June 26 1975), the student newspaper at Rice University in Houston:
- What is this idiom: "I'm going to start taking names and..."?kick ass {or (euphem[istically]} butt or tail} 1. Esp. Esp. Mil[itary] to enforce one's authority or otherwise enforce oneself mercilessly or pugnaciously; (also) (prob. the orig. sense) to subdue others by beatings; (hence) to play the bully; in phr. kick ass and take names to do so with great determination or success.—also used fig.—usu ...
- What is the etymology of "…kick ass and take names"?It appears ass kicking itself dates back to the early '40s and the phrase having as much chance as a one-legged man in a mule/butt/ass-kicking contest. The similar expression kick in the pants dates to the late 1800s. Edit 4/15/11: I just antedated the 1965 reference by 11 years. This is from John Oliver Killens' 1954 novel Youngblood:
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