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Is this idiom an offshoot of an older idiom? I have heard something that sounds similar to this, but the words were slightly different.
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It's related, but that question generated the above statement. People seem to think that it answered that question, so I had to make another question. – language hacker Apr 15 '11 at 22:56
Seems to me it's a variation. On police dealing with dangerous criminals -- or perhaps overzealous police -- there's the expression "shoot first, question the pieces later." – mfe Apr 16 '11 at 0:14
"Kicking ass and taking numbers" is another way of expressing this. You are so awesome at a task that people are lining up to take you on. – user44641 May 21 '13 at 17:52
I believe that the phrase "kicking ass and taking names" also has a military origin. It comes from the act of subduing enemies, and then identifying them. After capture, military forces collect name, rank, and service number.
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Do you have any references or uses that can be added to your answer? – MrHen Jun 23 '11 at 16:50
User "UnequivocallyAwesome" at Urban Dictionary claims it is a form of "Kick ass and ask questions later," which in turn is taken from "Shoot first, ask questions later," but UA has only this one entry and it has almost half as many downvotes as upvotes.
I don't think the two phrases (kick ass, take names; shoot first, question later) are related, but it seems the two have often been confused and combined. A search will turn up several different mashups of the two phrases.
Shoot first, ask questions later is an earlier phrase. I found it back to this 1919 US military publication:
Earlier examples of doing X, ask questions later exist however, as well as the general concept of asking questions later while in the heat of battle.
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Phrase can be used in reference to someone or something that is having multiple successes in succession. kicking ass - Kicking someone or something's ass, beating, defeating an opponent at a task. taking names - Recording a list of future contestants who will have also be beaten or defeated in the defined task. "Aunt Betty-Joe was kicking ass and taking names at bingo last night."
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Based on personal experience, "taking names" derives from the common practice in public schools in the United States of a teacher appointing a student to be classroom monitor when he or she had to absent herself temporarily from the classroom. Often the student monitor would be perched on a stool at the front of the classroom, and would write on the blackboard the name of any misbehaving student.
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What does that have to do with "kicking ass?" – Casey Oct 21 '14 at 15:40
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Most likely originated in the armed services, probably during Vietnam. "Kick ass" is generically applied to beating the opponent, whereas taking names refers to killing the enemy, or "taking their names." Has been adopted into common usage as a general motivational statement.
"CHARLIES OVER THAT RIDGE, LETS KICKASS AND TAKE NAMES!"

"pick up that goddam football damnit! now get out there, kick ass and take names you pussy!"
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Noun: a friend who is usually only called upon by a friend when a more primary/prominent friend is unavailable.

Taken from the term “second string” in an athletic competition situation. In football, if the star quarterback gets injured during a play, the second string is called off the bench to replace him/her. A “Second String Friend” is essentially benched until needed, if ever.

Synonyms: Plan B, Second Choice, Secondary Friend, Benched Until Needed
I got a call from X the other night. She had an extra ticket to a concert she bought for a friend, but they couldn’t make it so she called me to ask if I wanted to go because I am her Second String Friend.
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This expression does not date back to Vietnam or the 80's. it is ancient in the marine corps and is what drill instructors did up until the mid 70's
My Drill Instructor could kick ass and take names."
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This is just from rumors I hear and web forums I read. I started hearing "kick ass and take names" around the late 80's. Some say it's a police expression.

It probably means that cops or your group of fighters kick the ass of your opponents. Then you "take names" of the people you beat. That way you know the name of a guy you beat. And when you meet him again, you know you can beat him up again.
We gotta go play basketball against that team of jerks, the Eagles.

Oh Yeah! It's time for us to kick ass and take names!
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to behave roughly and violently (from the image of an overly punitive authority figure in the military or police
All he wanted to do with his position was kick ass and take names.
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First used by Florynce Kennedy, black feminist and writer. Inspired feminists, black and white, with her motto “Kick ass and take names”.
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