What does it mean when your socks are off?

If something knocks your socks off, you find it extremely exciting or good: I’m going to take you to a restaurant that’ll knock your socks off.

Where does the saying working your socks off come from?

To knock somebody’s socks off off means to surprise somebody by showing or providing them with something really impressive. The phrase was originally documented in the American South in the 1940s, where the phrase referred to beating somebody in a fight (similar to “knock his block off”).

What does we had a real pig of a day mean?

very difficult
Definition of pig of a British, informal. : very difficult I had a pig of a day at work.

What does having your socks on mean?

To remain patient and calm, especially when beginning to become angry or upset with impatience. Usually said as an imperative. Yeah, yeah, keep your socks on!

How do you sock wrestle?

Everyone is to have socks on and no shoes. They are to stand inside a designated area, and when a leader says go, they all must wrestle each other to get thier socks of. Can be played so that whoever is the last one with a sock on wins, or whoever has the most socks at the end wins.

Why is it called socking someone?

Pretty clearly this comes from a much older low slang use of the word sock, meaning to hit or punch, to give somebody a heavy blow, to assault or beat someone. There was also the phrase to give someone sock, to give someone a thrashing.

How did the expression fly off the handle originate?

This is an American phrase and it alludes to the uncontrolled way a loose axe-head flies off from its handle. It is first found in print in Thomas C. Haliburton’s The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England, 1843/4: “He flies right off the handle for nothing.”

What does socks mean in slang?

slang. : to subject to or as if to a vigorous assault they may let you off the first time … but the second time they’ll sock it to you— James Jones. sock.