If you know the answer, please don't reply.
Anyone else, take a wild guess. It's the first time I've ever heard the phrase today.
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Waning gibbous - what am I referring to?
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Do you think it will rain or get dark before morning?
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Do you think it will rain or get dark before morning?
'Tis always darkest before the dawn.
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My mother always used to come up with the rain or get dark phrase when there was a pregnant pause. I wish she had just kept quiet a lot of the time, I love pregnant pauses, comedic purity 
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Ah yes, the pregnant pause. 
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well I know it. I'm a smart arse. but I could come up with interesting alternatives. A dying Gibbon, for one
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If you know the answer, please don't reply.
Anyone else, take a wild guess. It's the first time I've ever heard the phrase today.
I'm biting my tongue.
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I understand the reference and as request I am refraining from posting the answer.
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Oh how I do wanna say yes I know the answer yes I will keep my mouth shut
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ooo, ooo please Miss, I know, I know!
Though technically (pedantically) they're just a couple of adjectives that are pretty meaningless on their own
Though technically (pedantically) they're just a couple of adjectives that are pretty meaningless on their own
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Waning gibbous
Thats what she said!
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Didn't he write "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". :-)
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I guess it means you're only going to show me part of your lovely butt!! 
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ooo, ooo please Miss, I know, I know!
Though technically (pedantically) they're just a couple of adjectives that are pretty meaningless on their own
You want to get really pedantic its a participle adjective (a verb used as an adjective) and an adjective.
Is it a hunchback of declining power and influence? Technically that would be an accurate use of those words, but I'm guessing it's not the one you're referring to.
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Didn't he write "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". :-)
That was Gibberish, not Gibbons.
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This is all Im saying...
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I guess it means you're only going to show me part of your lovely butt!!
ha ha ha good one...
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Not really sure what a gibbous is...I know a gibbon is a type of monkey...
A monkey on a diet would be my best guess...
A monkey on a diet would be my best guess...
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It's a phase of the Moon. As the Moon moves from full to last quarter, it is called waning gibbous. On the other side, going from first quarter to full is called waxing gibbous.
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Somebody doesn't read the instructions on the tin.
You're all smart alecs!
You're all smart alecs!
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Somebody doesn't read the instructions on the tin.
You're all smart alecs!
Great idea for a new thread!
- How did the expression 'smart alec' originate?
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Somebody doesn't read the instructions on the tin.
You're all smart alecs!
Not all of us are!
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Somebody doesn't read the instructions on the tin.
You're all smart alecs!
Oh my gosh, sorry! I misread your post. I thought it said "if you DON'T know the answer, don't reply". My bad.
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Well that's just my opinion, sorry if you don't like.
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Somebody doesn't read the instructions on the tin.
You're all smart alecs!
I didnt answer I just gave a clue and laughed. Yes I am a smart ass for the picture I posted but I couldnt help it I thought it was funny.
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Didn't he write "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". :-)
That was Gibberish, not Gibbons.
There I go waxing historical again.zQDpOOuNKErJ0lCL
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Great idea for a new thread!
- How did the expression 'smart alec' originate?
According to Gerald Leonard Cohen, author of Studies in Slang Part 1 (1985), the phrase "smart alec" arose from the exploits of Alec Hoag. A celebrated pimp, thief, and confidence man operating in New York City in the 1840s, Hoag, along with his wife Melinda and an accomplice known as "French Jack", operated a con called the "panel game", a method by which prostitutes and their pimps robbed customers.
The key to his activities was that they did so in close association with two police officers, who shared the loot and provided protection. Most was done by pickpocketing, with Melinda taking the victim’s pocketbook while the victim was otherwise engaged and surreptitiously handing it to Hoag or French Jack as they walked by. Hoag's downfall came because he got into financial difficulties and tried to cheat his police protectors out of their share of the loot. In one exchange, Hoag lay behind a wall in a churchyard and had Melinda drop the goods over the wall to him so that the constables could not see them.
The aforementioned "panel game" was a trick also used by the original Smart Alec, although not exclusively by him. George Wilkes, the assistant editor of the Subterranean, met Hoag while Wilkes was falsely imprisoned in the infamous New York prison called The Tombs. Wilkes described the trick in a diary of 1844, The Mysteries of the Tombs: "Melinda would make her victim lay his clothes, as he took them off, upon a chair at the head of the bed near the secret panel, and then take him to her arms and closely draw the curtains of the bed. As soon as everything was right and the dupe not likely to heed outside noises, the traitress would give a cough, and the faithful Aleck (sic) would slily (sic) enter, rifle the pockets of every farthing or valuable thing, and finally disappear as mysteriously as he entered." The victim was then persuaded to leave in a hurry through a window by Alec banging on the door, pretending to be an aggrieved husband who had suddenly returned from a trip away.
Hoag used this trick to avoid paying off his police protectors, so that when he was caught, the police were in no mood to aid him. He was sentenced to jail, but escaped through the help of his brother, only to be recaptured following extensive police searches, having been recognized by Wilkes.
Professor Cohen suggests that Alec Hoag was given the sobriquet of "smart Alec" by the police for being a resourceful thief who outsmarted himself by trying to avoid paying graft. It's impossible to be certain this is the true story, since the expression does not appear in print until 1865.
Several of the more reliable dictionaries agree. The Oxford English Dictionary traces it to mid-1860s slang, while the American Heritage Dictionary (4th ed., 2000) and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (16th ed., 1999) tentatively trace the etymology of the phrase to Hoag.