Why do we say "the carrots are cooked"
This expression is used, you know, when there is nothing more to do, it's over, lost, screwed up, failed… No more hope.
Why this expression related to carrots? However, cooked carrots are very good and why carrots and not another fruit or vegetable?
The expression "The carrots are cooked" comes from another older expression "to have one's carrots cooked" dating from 1878, which means to be ready to die, to agonize. From being on the verge of death to there is nothing more to hope for, there was only one step. The first uses of the expression the carrots are cooked actually referred to a dying person who no longer had much hope of being able to survive.
The first uses of the expression as such in literature date back to 1901: in a play by Georges Courteline "Soon the carrots are cooked: the evil tumbled into the worst which sank into the irreparable" and in a dictionary of the 20th century slang of Aristide Bruant.
A derivative of the expression "The carrots are cooked" is "It's cooked". When a preparation, a food is cooked, it is complete, finished.
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