as queer as a French horn
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I have never heard it before. I think it might be something to do with another usage, i.e. "bender/bent" which has sometimes been used with reference to gay men.
A French horn if straightened out would be very long (roughly 4 meters!). It is formed into a curve so as to be of a manageable size.
French horn (bent) http://www.musicalads.co.uk/musical-instrument-care-guides/how-to-tune-a-french-horn/
A French horn if straightened out would be very long (roughly 4 meters!). It is formed into a curve so as to be of a manageable size.
French horn (bent) http://www.musicalads.co.uk/musical-instrument-care-guides/how-to-tune-a-french-horn/
Hi,
I had never heard of it before either, but it seems a common phrase, or at least not too weird. I think a Spanish equivalent would be "más maricón que un palomo cojo" or the simpler "maricón perdido".
Yo también tengo curiosidad por el origen de la frase, la verdad. Bueno, tampoco sé el porqué de lo del palomo cojo.
Saludos.
Ant
I had never heard of it before either, but it seems a common phrase, or at least not too weird. I think a Spanish equivalent would be "más maricón que un palomo cojo" or the simpler "maricón perdido".
Yo también tengo curiosidad por el origen de la frase, la verdad. Bueno, tampoco sé el porqué de lo del palomo cojo.
Saludos.
Ant
I've never heard it before either, and there are not many results in Google. Just a guess (probably wrong) but maybe it's an old expression that originated from the fact that the French horn is quite a strange (queer) looking instrument. Then when the word "queer" started to be used with the meaning of homosexual, the expression was carried over with this new connotation.
¿Estás seguro que "queer" tiene ese significado en eata expresión? Creo que simpplemente puede significar "odd" (raro)
Saludos
Yo creo que sí que se refiere a "homosexual", porque más adelante el mismo personaje añade: A crime against nature, the wife used to say. But she's dead now.