A trip to the wood shed

[nq:1]IIRC, I heard this phrase during an NFL game (NE-CIN), and it was about the Cin. humiliation. Can anyone explain this phrase to me?[/nq]
In days of old, when woodsheds and corporal punishment were common, miscreant children were often taken out back to the woodshed for a spanking (or strapping, caning, whipping, etc.). At least that was the common wisdom of how such things were done. The

[nq:1]IIRC, I heard this phrase during an NFL game (NE-CIN), and it was about the Cin. humiliation. Can anyone explain this phrase to me? TIA[/nq]
In rural American locations, the woodshed was an outbuilding for the fuel supply, wherein chopped wood was cured and stored. It served as a place of corporal punishment, often referred to in the vernacular as "a whuppin'". In literature I have read

[nq:1]In rural American locations, the woodshed was an outbuilding for the fuel supply, wherein chopped wood was cured and stored. ... tohis nether regions. I doubt that the speaker during the NFL game had everseen such a thing as a woodshed.[/nq]
Mark is right, but it wasn't restricted to rural areas and it wasn't really that long ago. Any house that had a fireplace and/or wood-burning stove

Thanks for all the replies.

My relatives in St. Joseph, MO didn't have an indoor toilet until about
1965 and they lived within the city limits. They didn't have hot wateruntil 1989. My aunts had to heat water to wash the dishes, clothes, and themselves (not at the same time).
They did have other indoor plumbing before 1965 and along with it a cistern.
Nell

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Say, not so fast!
When Ronald Reagan found his budget adviser was leading him and the country astray, he had ample reason to bawl him out. Thus the verb "to woodshed" was invented or revived for David Stockman (I think that was his name), who was rather a young person to hold such an advisory post. He was the one who reported his reprimands to the pre

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[nq:1]Say, not so fast! When Ronald Reagan found his budget adviser was leading him and the country astray, he had ... person to hold such an advisory post. He was the one who reported his reprimands to the press as "woodshedding".[/nq]
"To woodshed" is also a verb used by musicians, particularly jazz musicians, to describe engagement in an extended p

[nq:1]"To woodshed" is also a verb used by musicians, particularly jazz musicians, to describe engagement in an extended period of intense practicing.[/nq]
Yup. Certainly by no means is it restricted to jazz musicians.

The idea is that you (figuratively at least) go out to the woodshed where no one can hear you and practice until the piece you are learning is fit to be heard in the ho

[nq:1]a more-or-less comment apropos[/nq]
or possibly, a more-or-less apropos comment (comme on dit en anglais).

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[nq:1]. Many towns didn't even have electricity until the REA was formed in the mid Thirties.[/nq]
**** TVA COMMUNISTS!!! Then THAT MAN!! He'da LIVED we'd all be talkin RUSSIAN!!
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