Bret Fisher
Docker Captain 🐳 & Cloud Native Ambassador ⎈
Maker of best selling container courses 👨🏫
Beach life 🏖 | Navy vet ⚓️
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- Years ago, internet told me "balls out" was a sailor metaphor for fully stocked cannon balls, but ChatGPT says that's folklore and it likely came from pilots referring to full throttle because the "balls" on their control sticks were fully "out"
- I love learning the origin of metaphors and slang. I'll use a metaphor for years, like "balls out" or "table stakes," and while I know its meaning, I'm not sure of its origins. I've also looked up metaphors that are NOT what I thought, and I had to remove them from my repertoire 🤦