Sit back my Child, and I’ll tell you a tale of how idioms can be created in the spur of the moment. Once upon a time, a man escaped from an asylum, and decided to take a nap beneath a peanut tree. He had been running all day, and hoped to catch a breather in the shade. He leaned on his back, never knowing that it was the fall season for these fruits, and they were just ripe for the picking. As it happened, a few minutes later, one particularly juicy legume happened to fall right into his genital zone. He expressed his discomfort with a loud proclamation of “AW NUTS!!!” His cry could be heard all across the countryside, and he was soon apprehended. To commemorate his capture, the tree and his outburst were immortalized. Thus was born the name of a crazy man, a profanity, the plant, and the body part.
“But don’t peanuts grow underground?” asked the Child.
“Be quiet,” said the Uncle with a dangerous look on his face.
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