🏈 Best CNS comment I've heard in a long time

[bama alum]

My jimmies got rustled.

I couldn't find that expression in the Oxford dictionary.

 

[planomateo]

Perhaps this will shed some light on the topic, via languagehat.com : THROUGH A TIN HORN.


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The appearance of the word “shit” in print was restricted in the past. So I think it makes sense, as a start, to gather evidence by looking for variants of the phrase in the major text databases.
Here are some variant phrases that appeared in newspapers and periodicals beginning in the 1880s:
like butter through a tin horn
like water through a tin horn
like mud through a tin-horn
Here is an example of “like butter through a tin horn” in 1887. A boat was grounded on a bar in a river. Eventually, a strategy was found to move the boat forward past the bar.
Cite: 1887 October 09, Kansas City Times, Science in Navigation,
[Acknowledgement to Mobile Register], Page 19, Column 4, Kansas City, Missouri. (GenealogyBank)
[Begin excerpt]
Then the rope was tied to a tree on the bank above and the old Carrier went over that bar like butter through a tin horn.
[End excerpt]
In the domain of sports, the phrase “water through a tin horn” was used with quotation marks in 1897. It was used to describe a runner easily penetrating the defense of the opposing team and scoring a touchdown.
Cite: 1897 December 26, Oregonian, “Fought In Deep Mud: Multnomah Wins Christmas Football Game, 10-6″, Page 8, Quote in Column 2. Portland, Oregon. (Genealogybank)
[Begin excerpt]
Wilbur was given the ball, and, with fine interference, plunged through Multnomah’s line like “water through a tin horn” and scored Portland’s only touchdown.
[End excerpt]
The phrase “like mud through a tin-horn” was used in quotes in 1906. The word “mud” was sometimes used as a euphemism for “shit” in periodicals. So the phrase “like shit through a tin-horn” may have been used by a pilot in the following excerpt.
Cite: 1906 December, The Rudder, Volume 17, Number 12, A Fast Trip Down the Hudson by Walter M. Bieling, Quote Page 735, The Rudder Publishing Company, New York. (Google Books full view)

The Rudder

 

[OldPlayer]

My input: quality horns are made of brass. A tin horn will be inferior in all aspects. There's "a lot" of spit that goes into a horn when played but a quality horn has a spit valve to remove it. A tin horn doesn't have a spit valve and the spit, or anything else, goes through the entire instrument.

 

[rueben]

A "tinhorn" and "tin horn," are two different things.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

A "tinhorn" and "tin horn," are two different things.

Perhaps that will be a follow-up question in Saban's post-game conference: Coach, did you mean an inferior musical instrument or someone who is all hat, no cattle?

 

[planomateo]

Perhaps that will be a follow-up question in Saban's post-game conference: Coach, did you mean an inferior musical instrument or someone who is all hat, no cattle?

That would be awesome.

 

[BamaFan334]

Perhaps that will be a follow-up question in Saban's post-game conference: Coach, did you mean an inferior musical instrument or someone who is all hat, no cattle?

Ha ha, I would die of laughter if that was asked.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Seriously needed the laughs this thread has given me this morning. Love it

 

[rueben]

Ha ha, I would die of laughter if that was asked.

I wish I knew he would be coaching when I retired. I would seriously consider getting my press credentials, just to ask him questions like this.

 

[UAgrad93]

Perhaps that will be a follow-up question in Saban's post-game conference: Coach, did you mean an inferior musical instrument or someone who is all hat, no cattle?

Leave it to Cecil Hurt to ask! Hell! He would do it!!

 

[AL26Red]

Nick Saban's 's*** through a tin horn' quote, explained

 

[wiregrass_bamaguy]

Kind of wish after he had finished talking, that someone would have asked him about how he was preparing for florida

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Beat me to it.

So full of win.

 

[DV Flak]

We need some Sabanisms in our colors.