dogs boll**ks

[vicki87]

where did this saying come from? Someone told me a while ago and i found it really interesting but ive forgotten...

[shaneystar2]

All about mutts nuts here
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dog's%20*** *****.html
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/********

[shaneystar2]

Sorry ..first link doesn't work..try again

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dog's%20*** *****.html

[shaneystar2]

Grr....try this link and type the phrase in the search box
http://www.phrases.org.uk/index.html

[shaneystar2]

I give up ! Go to Wikipedia and do the same ....type it into the search box.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

[ENGINEER1973]

I think its an essex saying for you have something very cool ....maybe lol

[dennisdenise]

I can recall this in 'Roger Melly the man on the telly' from Viz in the 80's. They even had a Viz annual called the dogs boll**ks. This is the earliest print citation I can think of but must refect general usage of the term in ?geordieland.

[Homer55]

Dog's ********
Another usage with a positive sense is the dog's ********, based on the notion that a dog's ******** must taste good, as they spend so much time licking them. Sometimes this is shortened to just "the dog's" or "the ********" (see above).

Although this is a recent term (the Online Etymology Dictionary dates it to 1989), its origins are obscure:

etymologist Eric Partridge believes the term comes from the printers' mark of a colon and a dash;
another theory suggests it is a spoonerism of "box, deluxe", in much the same way that "box, standard" was corrupted to "bog standard", although this etymology is anything but certain. See article on WorldWideWords website.
"The dog's ********" fits in with several rhyming reduplications of positive meaning that were popular during the 1920s ("the bee's knees," "the cat's pajamas"). More recent expressions that follow the same pattern are "the mutt's nuts" or "the dog's danglies". A further positive aspect of "the dog's ********" is derived from their prominence or notability, as in the expression "it sticks out like the dog's ********".