top-40 in 1957

[Richard Chonak]

On Jun 1, 2014 1:04 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>> That word has become so common in conversation that I think it has
>> become completely separated from its original meaning.
 
When I first heard it in the '70s, the meaning was not obscene but
merely insulting: something or someone was said to "suck eggs like a
weasel".

The reference even goes back to Shakespeare, according to the "
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" (1898):


>> /
>> Weasels suck eggs./ Hence Shakespeare--- 	/   1/
>>         	
>> "The weazel Scot
>> Comes sneaking, and so sucks the princoly egg."
>>
>>         	
>> /Henry V.,/ i. 2.
>>
>>         	"I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weazel sucks
>> eggs."---/As You Like It,/ ii. 5.
>>
>>
>> 	/   2/
>>  
>>

source: http://www.bartleby.com/81/17333.html

--RC