Speaker 1: Arrow dot net, aarr Oe dot net. It's more than
just a podcast. It is several as in like twenty
one of the most popular ones. View from the Writing Instrument.
You read the books, but do you know the author?
That is the entire concept behind that. Listen to their
voices in the interview, and then go back in there
and listen to the voices in the stories they share.
View from the Writing Instrument from Ero dot net r
r Oe dot net. Enjoy your exploration those odd as
well as old saints phrases, idioms. You know those things
that your family and friends usually came up with, and
they came from out of nowhere. Well, the thing is,
even though they didn't make sense, they had to come
from somewhere. Who, what, where, why, when? And how. Some
of those old and odd sayns are not only ancient,
but still carry a powerful punch even today. In fact,
I live by one of those old saints. Winning is
a choice. The goal of these episodes is to help
preserve not only a language, but lessons in life. My
name is Arrow. Warning, this episode, as my mother would say,
involves a filthy mouth. We're going to use curse words
once again. We have curse words in this episode, who
now that we get that cleared up the subject shit
a brick? I mean, how many people every day use
this statement as part of their everyday street slang. Mom
and Dad shit a brick last night when they found
out that I stole my brother's Ford pickup. History still
shows that the phrase shit a brick is still seen
as being crude. Yet things are softened up a bit
when you take note of it having clear logic while
affecting things culturally. So what does it mean to shit
a brick? Extreme shock, frightened, or astonished. The expression came
into being during the early part of the nineteen hundreds.
American soldiers and working class people adopted it in a
way of just shit an expression, it's actually part of
a much older bodily metaphor, linking it to a more
human fear, the loss of bowel control. Scared shitless is
connected to this. The word brick represents hard, heavy, and impossible,
so to shit a brick is really kind of over
the top. It is a bad reaction sometimes, but it's
clear what it's trying to say. The reason why it
stood the test of time is because it creates a
mental image. It signals intensity. It passes the polite language barriers,
going straight to real life human feelings. One time blue
collar slang is now a common shorthand. For surprise, I
mean shit a brick. We will when that team loses again,
something our parents would say. My name is Arrow.