Head down, a** up?

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Dh and I have been having a conversation with dd about studying for exams. She has not been applying herself so I was saying she needs to put down the phone and get working hard if she wants to see results. I used the phrase “head down, a** up” meaning get working hard and forget all distractions. I’ve heard it many times in my 40 years and that’s what it’s always meant.

When dd left the room dh said “you need to stop saying that”. I asked why and he informs me they’re the lyrics to a song with sexual meaning. I looked it up and it is.

I feel weird now as dd is 18 and probably knows this song and though I’m pretty sure she knows that’s not what I’m talking about it’s just left me feeling bothered.

AIBU to think this was actually a phrase that means exactly what I think long before it became a song with another meaning?

How could you not realise it means sex? Why would you put your arse up to do revision? Yabu.

I have actually heard it used to mean working hard! Does that make you feel any better?

I never thought it has sexual connotations. You filthy lot! I thought it was about little ducks busily eating breadcrumbs.

Holy christ this thread gave me a giggle! I'm nearly 40 and even I'd heard that song and would think anything involving "ass up" would be sexual! I've never heard it in relation to working hard at all. Have you been saying that to other people other than your daughter, like at work for example? I'm cringing for you OP but thank you so much for sharing this giggle

Heads down tails up? Like a coin flip?
Wiki says it’s not rude en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/head_down,_bum_up

I’m very disappointed in you all...

That’s alright. When she’s put in enough graft tell her it’s time for Netflix and Chill.

Netflix and chill - have night in watching Netflix instead of going out?

Lovely! I’ve googled Netflix and chill. Seems I’ve turned a corner in 24hrs from being relatively young and with it to embarrassingly clueless

This has given me such a giggle
Stick to telling her to get her head down.

I'd maybe put £1 in her therapy pot for each time you've told her head down ass up

She’s probably gone off and text her friends/bf that you’ve told her to go fuck
Just don’t say it again.

I had to explain to a friend Netflix and chill when her stepdaughter said she was just going to Netflix and chill with her bf later on. She was shocked. I laughed hard.

Don't worry op, I'm embarrassing and clueless too.

Has anyone heard that Katie Perry song feels?

This one

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ozv4q2ov3Mk

Dh and I though it's said "to catch fish".

I would immediately think of the song. "Head down, ass up, that's the way we like to..." Hmmmm...

I am an old-fashioned elderly man. I have many times heard the expression "Get your head Down".
But the expression "Head Down, Ass Up", even to me, is really rude. I am astonished the OP did not know that!

the problem wasn’t that I didn’t know it was a sex position. It was that the particular saying, for me, has always meant ‘work hard’ so I never thought to associate it with a sex position when I said it in the context that I’ve always used it.

Spoke to dd about it. She didn’t know the song and hadn’t thought of it like you filthy minded brats but she did get a right laugh when I reiterated, should I ever utter it again, that I would be referring to study and not that she and the bf should race up to her room stat!

Pretty safe to say I won’t ever use it again!

I’m just back to 2001 and Ludacris singing ‘head down... ‘

Did you cringe her into revision? This could be a study tool!

The term glory hole sent me down a rabbit hole! In Australia a glory box is a chest or cupboard where unmarried women would store items for when they got married and left home. I’ve heard it called a hope chest as well.

It used to be things they’d made, back in the day when household items were handmade, things like sheets and towels, but often their trousseau. Later it would be things bought in preparation for setting up a home.

One of the original meanings of glory was “expectation”. So goods collected in expectation of marriage; or perhaps more broadly, things kept in a junk cupboard in expectation they might one day be useful.

Or, a hole created with the expectation that a form of glory might be forthcoming, even sans marriage.

“The Christian sense [of glory] are from the Latin word's use in the Bible to translate Greek doxa "expectation".

I think we need to reclaim the expression. Starting tomorrow, everyone on this thread needs to use it at least once, not in the bedroom, and with a straight face. Soon the OP’s version will be the norm again.

I’m Australian and have always known glory hole for what it is, always brings George Michael to mind.

Head down, bum up means put some effort in. I always associated it with cyclists!

I've heard it only as a 'get on with it' phrase but I'm in my late 50s and I haven't used it myself. And it was arses rather than asses.
I wasn't aware that it has been used to mean something else.

Oh dear 😂 this reminded me of when my mum went to buy a Gomez CD for my sister and asked the man in the shop for 'Gonzo'

this reminded me of when my mum went to buy a Gomez CD for my sister and asked the man in the shop for 'Gonzo'

Years ago my mum liked a pop song by Special D so she went into HMV and asked for "Sunny D" not sure if that's better or worse than my uncle pronouncing Beyonce's name as "bouncy"...

This is hilarious- it’s always meant doggy style to me, “getting your head down” can be working, I really hope you have said it at work

Face down...booty up, timber!