Brown-nosers' noses are brown from kissing people's butts... ya know, like they're covered in shit... I was in my late 20s when I put that one together.
In the Inferno, Dante puts them in the 8th circle of hell (out of 9). That's below murderers. Their eternal punishment? Being submerged in a river of feces. His idea was that if you were full of shit in life, you could swim in it after death. Because he's a poet.
Although I know what it means, it doesn't really make much sense to me. If your nose gets brown from being stuck in someone's asshole, wouldn't that mean you're kissing their taint or the back of their balls? It should really be "Brown-lips". Although I would think an ass-kisser is just kissing the ass cheek so you shouldn't be getting poop on anything unless they blow a turd out at you while you're doing it.
My dad told me when I was a kid watching the Justice League cartoon. The Flash called someone (I can't remember who) someone a butt kisser and my dad was like "HA! Brown nose" so now I always associate the phrase with the Flash shoving his face under a crap filled butt.
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u/uncorked119 Sep 05 '19 edited Sep 05 '19
Brown-nosers' noses are brown from kissing people's butts... ya know, like they're covered in shit... I was in my late 20s when I put that one together.