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A Republican senator just used the term "shot their wad" and,France Archives um, the internet has some opinions.

"We’re not going back to health care. We’re in tax now," Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah told Politico. "As far as I’m concerned, they shot their wad on health care and that’s the way it is. I’m sick of it."

People on Twitter, predictably, had an absolute field day ... even though Hatch claims the phrase doesn't mean what you think it does.

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It goes on, and on, and on.

Of course, when the story first came out, many people thought the phrase "shot their wad" had sexual undertones. Slatepointed out that it can be slang for ejaculating.

Okay.

But no, that's definitely not what he was talking about, Hatch said. And with a bit of humor, he made it clear on Twitter.

"As few of you were alive during the Civil War, here's a valuable jargon lesson on 'wads' and the shooting of them," he wrote, while sharing a screenshot of the definition of "wads" and "to shoot one's wad."

Turns out, "to shoot one's wad" also means "to do all that one can do."

And the meaning of "wads?"

"A plug of tow, cloth, etc., a disk of felt or cardboard, to retain the powder and shot in position in charging a gun or cartridge."

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Yeah, looks like the modern usage of the phrase doesn't really match up with the original. We'll just assume Hatch is old-fashioned and wanted to give everyone a history lesson.

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