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Originally Posted by GeoffC
what's "up the ying yang" ...  |
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Squash... whatever that is.
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Okay, for our International friends, "up the ying-yang is a phrase used here meaning "in a ridiculously excessive amount." I have no idea how or why the phrase came to mean that, but I've heard it all my life. Where you might say, "By Jove, man! I've a ridiculously excessive amount of yellow vegetables from Central America on my hands;" in the South at least, we say, "I got squash up the ying-yang." (I don't believe it has anything to do with the Chinese philosophy of the Yin and the Yang, Geoff.)
From Wikipedia: "Squashes generally refer to four species of the genus Cucurbita native to Mexico and Central America, also called marrows depending on variety or the nationality of the speaker."