Most say it came from ... When an especially rainy day did come along, the animals would either get washed off of the roof or would come leaping down looking for better cover. It's not far from here. To "crack up" can either mean "to praise highly" (As in, "He's not what he's cracked up to be.") That is to say that "Punch" was "Pleased" with killing his wife and baby among other things (read: he was the fucking Devil). Man, that's a bigger letdown than the short hairs thing. We must be cracked up or they rises, and we snarls.' Yes, there were servicemen that went home sans all limbs during the World Wars, but only two documented cases and there were no reports of either of them being carried off in baskets of any kind. It'd make more sense to say, "Yes, we're up by 21 with just two minutes left! Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd.. No two performances of the show were totally alike, but they all usually involved the same events: 1. Apparently the saying didn't come about until the 17th century, not the 16th. No two performances of the show were totally alike, but they all usually involved the same events: 1. Again, it's a yes and no answer. It's full of little sayings and idioms that on their face make no sense at all, and if traced back to their origins are downright horrifying. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/is+not+all+it%27s+cracked+up+to+be. Thanks for connecting! Consider the term "wise crack". So is that true? Download our English Dictionary apps - available for both iOS and Android. If you "cracked up" something you sang its praises. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. No. not all it's cracked up to be definition: to not be as good as people have said: . Honestly, the movie isn't all it's cracked up to be. not all it's cracked up to be. Now Means: Apparently the phrase spawned from an English puppet show that goes all the way back to the 1600s (Punch and Judy) which was written by a chemically imbalanced sociopath, or a 17th century Eli Roth. A torrential rain. A lot of the English language seems to have been developed as some kind of elaborate practical joke. Now Means: The origin pertains to walking sticks and accidentally grabbing the dirty, non-handled end, the "wrong end." In a corporate environment a good way to stop ransomware is to catch it at a security gateway before it has the chance to infect endpoints, Kirda says. Is that what they're calling it these days. Later the term Crackers came to mean a Scotch-Irishmen, a particular group of people. Still others say it has to do with the freak occurrence of frogs or fish falling from the sky (after being swept up by storms and flung miles away) and that the saying "it's raining cats and dogs" is just a way to say it's raining even harder than the time it rained fish. 5. It's sad to see a phrase that brings to mind the violent pulling of pubes be debunked. "A popular expression, meaning to get moving or going; to start something promptly and energetically." The negative version was in the language by 1884, when the American magazine reported 'Mexico.is not all it has been cracked up to be.'" Now Means: "Not all it's cracked up to be" refers to this meaning. That can be done because the malware has to perform certain detectable functions in order to do its damage. As in, "Uncle Bernie is pleased as punch now that he has his cocaine.". Some ransomware – notably Cryptolocker and Cryptowall – do a good job of encrypting data until victims pay to get it decrypted, he says. He kills Death, as in, the Grim Reaper 2. Most say it came from ... Formerly the word was used as a noun for a lively young fellow, a wag. Short end of the stick refers to getting screwed by chance, but wrong end refers to a misunderstanding.