"not by the hair of my chinny chin chin"
In the story of the Three Little Pigs, the wolf knocks on the door of a pig's house and says, "Little pig, little pig, let me in." And the little pig answers, "No, no, not by the hair on my chinny...
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" Where does the phrase "not by the hair on my chinny chin chin" come from? "It comes from the popular story about The Three Little Pigs.
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Google results: "hair of my chinny chin chin:" 763"hair on my chinny chin chin:" 645 No eggcorn, I guess.
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Possibly a rhyming (and negated) nursery variation on "by my beard", which was once a common oath. One example:Valentine:My friends,--First Outlaw:That's not so, sir: we are your enemies.Second...
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Your possibility sounds pretty good to me, Dr T. Variant forms of oaths relating to facial hair can be found, eg:1824 Morier Adv. Hajji Baba (1835) I. v. 33, I swear by the beard of the Prophet, that...
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And there's the verbal form, to beard, to oppose openly and resolutely, with daring or effrontery (OED1)"No man so potent breathes upon the groundBut I will beard him."Henry IV, Pt 1, Shakespeare
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And then the related (I think) use of "I was his beard (until he came out of the closet)." Said by women who partner with gay men in one way or another in order to divert attention away from the...
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The only time I ever heard beard used in the 'fake date' sense was in the Woody Allen movie Broadway Danny Rose, where Allen's character was the pretend-date of the real girlfriend of a married man,...
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That meaning would conform to AHD4's meaning number 4 which is broader than simply a female date or roommate of a gay man.
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There is this exchange from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, episode "Fear Itself," 8 Oct 1999:BUFFY: Oh, he was such a pain! Twelve years old and I can't go trick-or-treating by myself.(They're both...
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