In the last post I was asked where “drop the hammer” comes from. Turns out, there wasn’t an easy answer floating around already — it took serious digging. Dunno why I was digging for a floating answer, but that’s how these things work out sometimes. Below, I’ve set up the “drop the hammer” hits from […]
Does “drop the hammer” come from guns? Carlos *** Dear Carlos, Yes and no. Or rather, sometimes. I started out thinking this would be a breezy etymological jaunt, but nope – ended up in corpus research. Which is cool, since I’ve done plenty of etymology lately. I’m going to go through my steps and missteps, […]