It's the pits
I realised yesterday that I've often said "It's the absolute pits" but never had any idea what the underlying metaphor of that is. Is that pits as in coal mines? Cherry stones? Cheap theatre seats?...
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You may well have it there, Lionello. Vide the expression, the armpit of ther world for a disliked town or place.
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Armpit is just one of the derivatives of the word pit 'hole, cavity,' which has all sorts of unpleasant connotations. Some OED senses:3. A hole dug in the ground for a dead body; a grave. Obs. or...
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Devotees of SF (I mean real SF, before Kingsley Amis killed it with respectability) may remember a scene in "The Space Merchants" where the hero, Mitchell Courtenay, travelling on a plane, is nearly...
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