A bizarre, grey substance found on shoes and the bottoms of pants after a frat party. It is sticky and repulsive, as well as exceedingly difficult to clean. Everyone always has their own definitive theory of what it actually is and how it gets on everyone.
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In times of war or siege, Italian families would vacate their homes and rent apartments in safer areas. In order to protect themselves they would hire soldiers to sleep on the floor in shifts.
Ordinarily we would want to verify such stories before publishing them here as part of a phrase derivation. In this case though it isn't really important. The meaning of the phrase turns on the association in Italian folk-memory of mattresses with safety in wartime. The phrase wasn't well known outside of the USA and Italy prior to the Godfather movies. It was used there, and later in The Sopranos television series, to mean 'preparing for battle'. Whether or not the stories that originated it are true doesn't alter the fact that the screenwriters of those films used them in that context.
In times of war or siege, Italian families would vacate their homes and rent apartments in safer areas. In order to protect themselves they would hire soldiers to sleep on the floor in shifts.
Ordinarily we would want to verify such stories before publishing them here as part of a phrase derivation. In this case though it isn't really important. The meaning of the phrase turns on the association in Italian folk-memory of mattresses with safety in wartime. The phrase wasn't well known outside of the USA and Italy prior to the Godfather movies. It was used there, and later in The Sopranos television series, to mean 'preparing for battle'. Whether or not the stories that originated it are true doesn't alter the fact that the screenwriters of those films used them in that context.
"That Sonny's runnin' wild. He's thinkin'a going to the mattresses already."
Mainly popularized by the film, "The Godfather."
Mainly popularized by the film, "The Godfather."
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by MOCO & P-Phat May 29, 2009
Get the Mattress Mamboo mug.The belief that no life is more important than the next, that life is worth losing no matter your shade of skin, and that you might as well make the one you have count instead of spending all your time focused on who's life matters or what shade of skin they have/had.
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Being a Gray-Matter, it was turned over to their most experienced employee.
Because it was a Gray-Matter, the children couldn’t handle the problem.
A Gray-Matter usually requires the skills of persons over the age of 40 years.
Being a Gray-Matter, it was turned over to their most experienced employee.
Because it was a Gray-Matter, the children couldn’t handle the problem.
A Gray-Matter usually requires the skills of persons over the age of 40 years.
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