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17 January 2009, 08:09 PM
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Stand on your head and spit wooden nickels
Comment: I recently heard a phrase. " Stand on your head and spit wooden
nickles." Can you help me with finding out where this phrase originated? I have found it used frquently, has even been quoted by a US Senator in the last month, but I can find no origination of the phrase. 
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#2
23 January 2009, 01:46 AM
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Hmmm, I don't know an origin for that, but my grandfather (born in 1914)used to say 'don't take any wooden nickels' and in certain situations he was 'mad enough to chew nails and spit nickels'.
But that's all I've got. 
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23 January 2009, 05:55 PM
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It is a phrase that I remember from my childhood back in the 50s and 60s. I think that it might have been used like "Don't just stand on your head and spit wooden nickels." In other words, do something!
dewey
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#5
23 January 2009, 06:41 PM
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Hmm, the version I know is, "Whaddya want me to do? Jump up and down and sh*t wooden nickels?" as in, "What more do you want from me?"
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#6
24 January 2009, 03:35 AM
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I remember my mother using this expression, too (she was born in 1931). But I think it was more like, "I could stand on my head and spit wooden nickels and it still wouldn't happen."
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