I'm sure everyone out there has used the phrase "close but no cigar" at some point. But how many out there know how the expression originated?
Well, as the resident cigar blogger here at Thompson Cigar, that's one of those questions I'm happy to be able to answer.
"Close but no cigar" gets its name from the days when the games at fairs were for adults and cigars were often the prize. If you knocked down all the weighted milk bottles with the lighter-than-normal ball, you'd win yourself a cigar. If you were like most people and fell short of that mark, well, you were close but you didn't with the prize.
Anyone who can read that and say that we have it way better now than they did back then is sentenced to a day at any county fair with a group of small children who now spend their parents money playing similar games to try and win less valuable stuffed animals that will soon be lying forgotten in a closet. The prizes today stink by comparison. Give me a Padron cigar or an H Upmann any day. Or, really, anything close to those cigars.
Well, as the resident cigar blogger here at Thompson Cigar, that's one of those questions I'm happy to be able to answer.
"Close but no cigar" gets its name from the days when the games at fairs were for adults and cigars were often the prize. If you knocked down all the weighted milk bottles with the lighter-than-normal ball, you'd win yourself a cigar. If you were like most people and fell short of that mark, well, you were close but you didn't with the prize.
Anyone who can read that and say that we have it way better now than they did back then is sentenced to a day at any county fair with a group of small children who now spend their parents money playing similar games to try and win less valuable stuffed animals that will soon be lying forgotten in a closet. The prizes today stink by comparison. Give me a Padron cigar or an H Upmann any day. Or, really, anything close to those cigars.
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