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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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• Going Ham
• going steady
• Goink
• Going Commando
• Going Rogue
• Going Green
• goins
• going out
• going down
As a verb, goive can be employed thus:
Q. did you vote in the uni elections?
A. No, I goived them.
and as a noun:
I was going to do some work but actually it's a bit of a goive.
Are you going to Anal Johnson's language lab?
Yup. Many goives. I loike ya.
Q. did you vote in the uni elections?
A. No, I goived them.
and as a noun:
I was going to do some work but actually it's a bit of a goive.
Are you going to Anal Johnson's language lab?
Yup. Many goives. I loike ya.
by Alexander Higham (Head of House Phils 2001-2002) March 19, 2005
Get the goive mug."I don't want to be Going Dabo here but we got beat 52-14 on our home field, however, if we played them 10 times we'd win five".
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Get the goiffman mug.When the situation is difficult, it's time for you to show you can make it(the brave person acts).You face the difficulty, you don't run away.
Anna lost her job and her boyfriend dumped her for her best friend. She carried on. When the going gets tough the tough gets going. Three monthes later she was in a better job and going out with a really nice guy.
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