While it's quite plausible that "screw the pooch" is a euphemization of "fuck the dog" (Green's Dict of Slang agrees), the rest of this seems a little dubious. Various sources suggest that there was indeed a Joseph L. "Jack" May who DJ'ed "The Candied Yam Jackson Show" on the Yale radio station WYBC when he was an undergrad from 1947 to 1951.

2015年7月15日 · "Fuck the dog" (or its milder variant, "screw the pooch") comes from an old joke. There are various versions, but a drunk man ends up shooting the wife and screwing the pooch (instead of the other way around). Reddit. It is certainly not …

2014年12月14日 · As for the term "screw the pooch", here's a quote from Jacob May, the DJ who first coined the term back in the '50s recounting how that came about: John Rawlings was one of two roommates who were architecture students. In the spring of 1950 it was time for his project to complete the semester. He procrastinated. Apparently all architecture ...

My first thought was that this is probably a shortening of the phrase to screw the pooch. (idiomatic) to screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion. But Wiktionary also has a listing for pooched as an adjective, with no mention of the longer phrase: (slang) made unusable; broken; buggered (British)

2012年2月18日 · In American English we have something similar in "screw the pooch," meaning to fail spectacularly at a task — taken from an old joke in which the drunken subject intends to go home and "feed the dog and screw the wife" but because of intoxication switches the actions with their intended targets. –

2013年3月10日 · This is a line from the book Test Driven Development by Kent Beck: Fortunately, we are well rested and relaxed and unlikely to make mistakes, which is why we will go in teeny-tiny steps, verify...

2011年7月3日 · The handle connected to a spindle inside a box and a screw was tightened onto the spindle to make the handle hard to turn. The workhouse staff would turn the screw even tighter if they did not like an inmate. This is where we get "turning the screw" to mean being unneccessarily awkward. And also "screw" for prison officers seen to be unfair or ...

2014年10月6日 · If that context can be brought to bear (and in my opinion it suits the context of the movie Battleship better than "kiss my ass," which I believe is a taunt that means, "you're less than I am"), then the meaning in the movie is similar to "screw the pooch," meaning "you've lost."

2022年1月1日 · There are a number of slang terms that use the term "screw". Pulling from an answer on this site:. screw-based [slang terms] abound: you can screw something up (mess it up), you can be screwy (crazy), you can be screwed (ruined, done for), you can ‘screw it’ (forget it, leave it aside), you can screw someone over (cheat them), you can screw around (fool around), you can screw someone (as ...

Yes, in the right context it should be pretty easy to deduce. Salad dressing recipes (or any recipes) for which the ingredients may include controversial items such as anchovies, or very spicy ingredients; will often have the potentially offensive ingredients listed as optional.