Ever wonder where the expression ‘blow smoke up your ass’ came from?





I’ve always heard the expression “Don’t let me blow smoke up your ass” and never really knew where it came from. Do you?

Through hard research (Google) I found out it was actually a medical procedure used in the eighteenth century where, literally, smoke + tobacco was blown up a drowning victim’s bum to resuscitate them! Makes perfect sense, right?

Below, Stephen Fry and friends go into detail about the small bellows used to “revive” a drowned person.





Via reddit