up the yin-yang英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

介词短语

Synonym of out the wazoo. colloquial,idiomatic,mildly,vulgar

— We've got bananas up the yin-yang this week. Does anyone know how to make banana bread?

词形变化

out the ying yang alternative up the yin yang alternative up the ying yang alternative up the ying-yang alternative

词源

It has been suggested to derive from the meaning of the phrase "up the yin-yang", where "yin-yang", a reference to a circular Taoist symbol, is used euphemistically for the human anus; the suggestion, therefore, is that one has so much of some thing that some of that thing is to be found in one's colon, or otherwise beyond one's anus. The meaning of "up the yin-yang", then, is actually "to an excessive degree".