Is this really an encyclopedia article? And if you ''can'' justify an article about something so trivial and context-dependent, how can you possibly omit any mention of Jamaica, which would seem central to the phrase? --LDC
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The fact that you associate it with Jamaica and I associate it with Nigeria is interesting in itself.
Look, there are maybe 100 such phrases in the world, and people *do* ask "what the hell does that mean?" about these things all the time, especially if they don't speak English as a first language. It's an idiom.
Even if we defined all 4000 English idioms here, that wouldn't be too much for any encyclopedia. 4000 out of 100,000 is only 4% of the grand total but they are probably 15% of English usage itself. Dictionaries can't cover them so encyclopedias should.
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