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a garden snake that obeys you, mostly, until the kink no one can find
means A flexible tube for carrying water or other fluids from one place to another; historically also a word for close-fitting leg coverings.
from From Old English 'hosa,' meaning a covering for the leg — and it kept that sense for centuries (think of the tights-like 'hose' worn under doublets, and the lingering 'hosiery'). The watery sense came later by metaphor: a long, flexible tube that snakes along the ground much like a stocking stretched over a limb. The garment-to-garden-tube leap is shared across Germanic relatives — Dutch and German both have 'hose'-like words for leg coverings, hinting at a common ancestor for 'something that sheaths or covers.'
- weak link
- kinks where you can't reach and won't relax
- fire history
- linen-and-leather firehoses predate modern rubber by centuries
- sprayer trick
- thumb over the end multiplies water speed dramatically
- kids' nemesis
- summer's cheapest weapon and cruelest ambush tool
fire hose — used by firefighters to deliver 500+ gallons per minute of water at 100+ psi
garden hose — standard household hose, typically 50-100 feet long, connects to outdoor water taps
hydraulic hose — high-pressure hose used in heavy machinery like excavators and dump trucks