Balls to the wall!
I’ve been going “balls to the wall” with my lessons… but can a girl really go “balls to the wall”?
Let’s find out.
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The Bell in the beginning is BALLS TO THE WALL…you girl, are the brass ball
Oh, hear is Accept – Balls to the Wall, with lyrics
“Ball to the walls” I think most People use this term in a sexual context to mean His Ball to walls Of her Vagina.
It’s cute the way her pigtails shake under the hat. A lot of other women try to hate on her and her style. The hotforprofits girl is ripping her style but it’s just good flattery.
The reference to the “speed governor” in Marina’s video of having the balls swing out at full speed is often referred to as “balls out” meaning “full speed”. “balls to the wall” refers to the airplane engine throttle handles, or “balls” being pushed to the “firewall”, the wal between the pilot and the engine. Hence, “balls to the wall”. “Balls out” and “Balls to the wall” both mean “Full Speed” or “Max Effort”.
“Freeze the balls off of a brass monkey’ refers to a temperature so cold as to freeze the private parts in question off of a brass monkey. (If I recall correctly.) There is another phrase used to describe extremely cold weather, ‘As cold as a whitch’s tit in a brass cup.’.
Eric M
My brother is from the great state of Michigan. Their state of mind differs from us down here in Indiana.
Anyway, I learned from him that “balls to the wall” apparently is when the cop slams you into the wall. Except this one guy… yeah. Hence.
But there are other expressions to this end. I only know the one: “Get out without a hitch (or whatever) or the cops will bust your…” yeah.
Spanish women call each other “hombre” in conversation in every conversation; English men derogatorily call each other “c*nts.”
In the US, I don’t think expressions like “to have balls” or “to be ballsy” are specific to men. “To have balls” means to be daring, or audacious, which women can certainly be too.
So, for example it makes perfect sense to say that you, Marina, must “have balls” to do what you are doing: putting yourself in front of the whole world to be criticized or applauded. It’s a great quality in a woman–having balls, metaphorically speaking of course!
lostforwords
This is a funny one too! I laughed a lot at this one. More and more humor, please Marina.
Okay, here is a question: why do the British spell neighbor, color, and humor: neighbour, colour, and humour?
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I heard that “freezing the balls off a brass monkey” refered to those objects that used to hang out side Pawn brokers shops many years ago, which comprised of three brass balls and were I believe called brass monkeys. The story goes that when it was freezing cold the welding that fixed the balls to the support would crack and come undone and the balls would go crashing down to the pavement (or sidewalk in USA) below.
Hence freezing the balls off a brass monkey.
hi
i have been flying varies airplanes for 25 years as well as currently being an airline captain now. i have never heard the term balls to the wall as an aviation term. i have used the term fire walled. which means pushing the throttles as far forward as possible to the stops or firewall. on light aircraft the engine is separated from the cabin by a wall that protects from fire. called a firewall. Now 30-60 years ago some of the propeller engine aircraft had balls on the end of the throttle. since i was a boy i thought the term came from steam engines.
Steam engines had mechanical regulators that consisted of a pair of hinged lever arms with a ball on the end of each arm, as the engine sped up the centrifugal force caused the arms to raise up closing a valve. If you adjust the regulator so that the arms go to horizontal (with the balls pointing to the wall) without closing the valve you are not limiting the speed of the engine. hence the term balls to the wall. i believe since steam engines and that term have been around since the 1700’s the term goes to it not airplanes
thank you
justfred1
What about the word, cahoots? It’s always plural, and someone is always in it. They are never under, on, over, or around it. They are never in it alone either. They are always in it with someone else. So what is cahoots exactly?
When I was in the Navy, the expression we used was “going balls out” which ties in more with the speed governor on the train, or any other machine as they still exist in a modified form in modern jet engines.
The explanation I was given for the expression all those years ago had to do with the feeling of your eyeballs popping out of your head under extreme G forces when dogfighting.
Hello Marina, I actually have two questions for you! If you would respond to them I would be very pleased.
#1
Since you’ve got such a great body, and all the pictures of you are very very good, is it so that you are or have been a proffesional model? Just think you fit the pictures very well! You’re actually the most beautifull woman I’ve ever seen :S
#2
How do you actually find the origins of all the words that people requests? I know you don’t just “google” them;p But which metod do you take in use? Would be funny to know.
Your videos is really teaching me alot about different words!
I’m really greatful that you’ve made such videos that doesn’t actually just consist of a “dumb blondy showing boobs” but rather a smart, intelectual beautiful mature woman:D
It’s a fact that you have thousand and thousand of fans to respond to, but would be great if you could reply to this comment!
Thanks,
Håvard (Howard^^)
From Norway!
howie123, I just took a bunch of pictures.. and didn’t know what to do with them.. now I’m using them
As for the process… I look at the requests… then try to find the ones that will make a good story… then I look up the origins first in the Oxford English Dictionary (the most reliable source).. then I look in a series of books to back up what’s in the OED… I have some etymology books… then I go on the Internet and see how people are getting the etymologies wrong (on wikipedia for example) and if there are enough wrong answers.. then I make a game out of the origin.
Once I find a word it takes me about 2 hours to fact check each one.. and then write a script.. then fact check again. It’s very time consuming.. because even after I fact-check then record the video, edit and upload.. I STILL get barraged with nay-sayers.. and then I find myself re-checking everything for the 4th or 5th time… because people are SO adamant in their beliefs at times. It’s almost a religion to them. Imagine your whole life being told that cops got their name from the copper badges.. and then I come along and tell you that’s not where it came from! You would HATE me for that!
I was kinda hoping that somebody makes the scripts and does the research for you
Because that means you have a huge brain AND make sense of the research by yourself AND possess the cutest accent ever AND look drop-dead gorgeous – other women have NOTHING on you! 
You can see the work that goes into your videos. It’s interesting to see how you do the research. I get a lot of my information from my trusty Petit Robert, a French dictionary. A lot of times, my English dictionary will just say that a word has been borrowed from, or derives from, the French word. So I go to my Petit Robert to get the rest of the story. Anyway, you do great work. I’m an avid fan!
Dear Hotforwords,
Where did the term “Blue Balls” come from? I understand it’s an expression used to describe Certain kinds of Frustrations… But then, shouldn’t Lottery Balls be blue too!? The Lottery is terribly frustrating.
politricks5
Dear Marina,
A word:
Where did the name for the Sandpiper, Godwit(as in Bar-tailed Godwit or Hudsonian Godwit) come from?
Thanks.
C.
I am under the impression that the origin of the word godwit is the same as the origin of ‘curlew’: it’s echoic. In other words, these two birds are what we call “name-sayers.” They are named this because it’s what we think we hear them saying when they call. cur-LOOOO, cur-LOOOO! godWIT godWIT WIT WIT WIT!
BTW, are you a long-billed or a bristle-thighed?
Hiii
I would make a request for the word: Noob….. It’s a word young people use now a days….. Do you know when they started using this word, and for what reason?
Would be nice to know
By the way, you’re awesome 
Hi SABIHA (Maltese word for beautiful),
There is a word/initials? that has stumped me. It is UXB. Maybe it means UneXploredBoobs
. Love your shows & everything about you. Keep it up. I know I will!
Love You.
Vince
Привет. Пожалуйста простите мне. Я могу говорить на очень плохом русском языке. Но я учусь. Я – американец, живущий в Германии. Я иду в Ирак на следующей неделе. Я люблю ваши видео, и люблю говорить людям происхождение слов. Вы красивы, и Вы заставляете меня хотеть быть Филологом. Было бы хорошо, так как мое название – Фил.
if your russian is very bad, and if you’re an american living in germany — why would you write russian on here?
don’t you think it’s kind of inappropriate and even impolite to the non-russian speakers?
(the white horse riders will tell you — in addition to some worshippy things — that she’s never answered in russian.)
besides, kinda strange to use the formal form of adress.
anyway, good luck in iraq. may you get back well.
Hello Marina,
I was wondering about the word, “Lazy Susan” comes from
It is actually a round rotating shelf in the corner cupboard that you spin.
I would love it if you picked my word!
Sorry, didn’t see pupil on the list
I have another word I want you to explain the origin of instead:
(a) rocket
I hope you can help me finding the origion of that word atleast:)
hello,
Could yo please let me know what “whine up” means and were does it come from.
Hélène from France
Je ne connais pas cette expression, et je suis 100% yankee !!!
Translation: I don’t know this expression, and I’m 100% yankee !!! . . . . I’d be interested in learning about this. Thanks, Hélène, for an interesting suggestion. Merci.
hello,
It’s the title of one of KAT DELUNA’s song (see you tube.) I can guess what it means thanks to the video but I’m not really sure… please help!
Your French is good Lividemerald. Byebye
Hello Marina!
Love your videos, have learned quite much from them. Seen everyone.
But, anyways
I actually have two word requests:)
1: (a) peacock (the bird with many colours and “eyes” on its tale)
and
2: (a) pupil (both meanings really, both the name on those attending to a school and the thing in the middle of your eye)
Would be great if you could explain the origin of these two words!
Thanks
I think that your rating have gone through the roof
Where did that saying come from ? from your friend
(redneckforwords)
Marina, you are truly a “wizard” of words, so if I knew the origin of wizard it would be “another mystery solved” for me. Chief
I have wached alot of HotForWords now… and my word I’d like you to investigate is… INVESTIGATE.
xxxx <3 It’ll be much appreciated if Hot for words could find this out
Here are some other sayings you might want to investigate:
Dry as a witch’s tit in the desert.
Drier than a nun’s nasty.
Colder than a witch’s tit in a brass bra, doing pushups in a snow bank.
Colder than a well digger’s ass
Darker than the inside of a cow
Loose as a goose
Jumping Jehosephat
Heavens to Mergatroid
Christ on a Bicycle!
Full of piss and vinegar
Marina,
This is hilarious. I used this phrase when it was really cold a few weeks ago, and some friends got a kick out of it. It’s cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey!
Maybe you can also check on “colder than a witches tit in a brass bra” and “colder than a well-digger’s ass” – those are other equally colorful cold-weather idioms.
Brass monkey has to do with actual brass monkeys sold in the 19th century as souvenirs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_monkey_(colloquial_expression)#cite_note-0
You are the best Marina!
Love,
Eric
dear MARINA–thanks for “cop”.i thought it was the copper badge.what about —automobile. thank you.tom kosky.staten island,n.y.
You know, for a woman going “balls to the wall” I pictured different balls – those also referred to as peas, oranges or melons depending on there size.
And on a sidenote, what’s that with women and fruit, anyway?
You mean what’s up with MEN equating parts of a woman, or entire women themselves as consumables of some sort or other…You know, like Hi Honey, I’m home…or calling them sweetie-pie, cupcake, sugar lips, what a dish, tomato, tall drink of water, etc. or referring to their various body parts as buns, jugs, [lips like cherries], melons, hairpie, furburger, etc.
Kinda makes you think some men might view women as objects to be sampled, bought, owned and eventually consumed, wouldn’t you agree? But not us, of course…
Well, that’s one explanation. Another possibility is that men simply really like food (there’s a proverb about thinking with the stomach, and male love going through the stomach), and so food gets used to describe the other thing men really like, namely women. It could possibly be rooted in the primal male urges.
one: women use those expressions, too.
two:
i) object =df. a thing, an entity, or a being [...], things located somehow in space and time — minds and bodies, for instance. (–> source.)
ii) object =df. A single, identifiable unit or entity. An object can comprise other, smaller objects. (–> source.)
so, women are objects. like each and every other entity. including men.
Hi Marina,
My mother used to always level this rejonder my way:
“Don’t be so persnickety!”
So, I thought we might go into the origins of that word…
Okay…since we’re on that subject…Let’s try “Panty melter”…LOL!!!…I think this one will get a rave review…Real…Oh!..”rave review” that’s another one…NAH!!!…that one’s boring…yes, I’m a dotmologist…
Yeah, panty melter is a fairly new one. It came about only after the advent of commercially-available fruit roll-ups, or sometime around the mid- to late-70s. These are flat pieces of dried fruit juice that can be fashioned into flexible shapes, meaning they could then be made into edible panties by some forward-thinking salesperson who made the connection between high-profit naughty novelties, women, food, fashion, convenience (you can eat the evidence), clothing, and the perennial urge to merge.
Hi Marina:
I remember this term, “balls to the wall,” in the navy for when a ship was making sharp turns at sea during drills. It referred to the fact that you’d be slammed against a wall during these times.(There were no women on warships at that time.)
What is a cocktail? is it a tail about a cock, or where does it come from? and 1 more.. What does there have to take before a.. song becomes classic or a movie?. thank you Marina!