Why do people say whoa nelly

Nelly Ho! Nelly, Ho! Murrow reporting on World War II, the voice of ultimate authority in college football. Jackson has appeared in numerous commercials, especially in the latter stages of his career. It was in fact owned by Roy, but was driven in the show by his comic sidekick, Pat Brady. A handsome bay mare had been tranquilly eating hay in its stall turned half round and cast a glance from a pair of beautiful large eyes on the reporter.

Nelly is the particular pride of the ladies who attend the Equine Paradox, now exhibiting at the Cosmopolitan Theater, and after being introduced to the star of the troupe Truth was shown the other educated horses. Haha, people say a lot of weird things for surprise. I'm assuming this is coming from "Oh, Nelly! It's not used very commonly. But if something strange is being used for surprise, it's usually to avoid saying a swear word.

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Who nelly. Thread starter LadyBlakeney Start date Jun 15, LadyBlakeney Senior Member Madrid. Hello, forum friends! One of my US colleagues made this remark when presented with a rather long list of items for revision: Who nelly.

Then, she continued saying that we needed time to go through the list slowly. I don't understand her exclamation I think that's what it is , so I'd really appreciate a little bit of explanation about it. Thank you very much in advance. LadyBlakeney said:.