Victory in a game or contest is not conceded until all possible efforts are exhausted or all time expired. It is generally credited to sports commentator Dan Cook in April 1978.
Dick Motta, coach of the NBA's Washington Bullets adopted the expression during the Bullets' drive to the NBA championship in 1978.
The expression is drawn from the idea of a spectacular final aria sung by the stout female opera singer of cartoon caricature. It is applied particularly in sports, usually uttered by the side which is behind and determined to fight through the last second. And, it is akin to Yogi Berra's immortal: It's never over till it's over".
~Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Allusions
opiate of the people:
This phrase first appears in Karl Marx's 'Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right' (1884): "Religion is the sigh of suppressed creatures, the feeling of the heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people".
Today, "opiate of the people" is more commonly used.
Orchard Street:
Narrow, crowded street of pushcart vendors selling every conceivable ware at bargain prices to inhabitants of New York's Lower East Side. A vestige of Yiddish immigrant life in the first part of the 20th century. Orchard Street is a symbol of cheap goods and animated bargaining.
OreO:
The name of a cookie in which a white cream filling is sandwiched between two chocolate wafers, "Oreo" has become the slang epithet for an Uncle Tom.
out of the closet:
Phrase originally used by homosexuals for abandoning secrecy and openly declaring thier sexual orientation. This was tenet of the Gay Liberation Movement. By extension, the phrase means to come out into the open with any hitherto concealed or camouflaged difference, whether personal or political.
