Words and Their Stories: Chickenfeed

When you add the word gallery to the word peanut Jordan GS you have the jordan noir name of an area in an American theater. A gallery is a high seating area or balcony above the main floor.

The same person who protests that he is working for chickenfeed may also say, "I am working for peanuts." She means jordan flight 45 she is working for a small amount of money.

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The expression is an old one. Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators. That meant political troublemakers who did not have a lot of support.

Another reason for the saying about working for peanuts may be linked to elephants. Think of how elephants are paid for their work in the circus. They receive food, Jordan GS not money. One of the foods they like best is peanuts.

Almost every language in the world has a saying that a person can never be too rich.

Spy expert Henry S. A. Becket writes that some German spies working in London during the war also worked for the British. The British government had to make the Germans believe their spies were working. So, British officials gave them mostly false information. jordan bordeaux It was called chickenfeed.

Americans, like people in other countries, always want more money. One way they express this is by protesting that their jobs do jordan bordeaux not pay enough. A common expression is, "I am working for chickenfeed." It means working for very little money. The expression probably began because seeds fed to chickens made people think of small change. Small change means metal coins of not much value, like nickels which are worth five cents.

No one knows for sure how a word jordan sneakers for something to eat also came to mean something very small. But, a peanut is a very small food.

Chickenfeed also has another interesting meaning known to history experts and World War Two spies and soldiers.

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Words and Their Stories: Chickenfeed

The peanut gallery got its name because it is the part of the theater most distant from where the show takes place. So, peanut gallery tickets usually cost less than other jordan doernbecher tickets. People pay a small amount of money for them.

It is a very different meaning from the main one in the dictionary. That meaning is small nuts that grow jordan sneakers on a plant.

An early jordan doernbecher use of the word chickenfeed appeared in an American publication in jordan spizike nineteen thirty. It told about a rich man and his so?n. Word expert Mitford Mathews says it read, air yeezy 2 "I’ll bet neither the kid nor his father ever saw a nickel or a dime. They would not have been interested in such chickenfeed."

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