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uhm, no...? https://wordhistories.net/2021/09/20/lead-balloon/ https://wordhistories.net/2021/09/20/lead-balloon/ It's a common idiom in political discourse. O
by toyg 5y ago
uhm, no...? https://wordhistories.net/2021/09/20/lead-balloon/ https://wordhistories.net/2021/09/20/lead-balloon/
It's a common idiom in political discourse. Or was this a bad joke?
- mellavora 5y agothe band chose the name Led Zepplin as a pun on the phrase lead balloon.
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- accountofme 5y agoThe band Led Zeppelin is called that because keith moon(iirc) from the who said forming the supergroup "would work as well as a lead Zeppelin". It was a historical joke :)