question: what is the meaning of the phrase “it’s a weird hill to die on”?
comment: “I will die on this hill” is the original phrase here, meaning that you will defend this viewpoint to the last. A related and possibly alternate origin is calling an opinion or viewpoint someone’s “hill to die on”. The variation you’ve brought up is a humorous/sarcastic way of saying that someone has made an odd choice of opinion or viewpoint to defend so vigorously. For example, being a militant supporter of putting toilet paper on one way or another would be a weird hill to die on.
passages: Section::::History.:"Omens" (2011–2012).
   Section::::History.:"Holy Despair and Via Artis, Via Mortis" (2013–present).
   Section::::History.
  
  Section::::History.:Formation (2004–2008).
   There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill
  
  "There was an old woman lived under a hill" is a nursery rhyme which dates back to at least its first known printing in 1714. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 797.
  
  Section::::Origins and development.
  
  In 1714 these lines:
   Aldo Leopold first came up with this term as a result of watching a wolf die off. In those days of Leopold’s adventures, no one would ever pass up killing a wolf because fewer wolves meant more deer, which meant great hunting experiences. However, when Leopold saw the “fierce green fire dying in her eyes” he knew that neither the mountain nor the wolf deserved this. Leopold stated in his book, "A Sand County Almanac":
   And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
  
  "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" is a science fiction short story by American author James Tiptree, Jr.. It was originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"s March 1972 edition.
  
  Its title is a quote from John Keats' 1819 poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci".
  
  Section::::Plot.
   Because it is so well known, this saying is one of the most common proverbs used in psychological tests for mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, to look for difficulty with abstraction. American research conducted in the 1950s between Air Force basic airmen and hospitalized Veterans Administration patients with schizophrenia found that the way a person interprets proverbs can be used to determine abstraction ability. The lack of abstraction ability in these studies was statistically significantly higher in the VA patients and it has thus been construed as indicating pathology. As persons with mental illness are generally believed to demonstrate "concrete" thinking (a tendency to interpret abstract concepts literally) the research results have, in practice, often been improperly generalized to suggest proverbs alone can be a sufficient indicator of mental illness.
   However, this rhetorical term was apparent in other of Poe’s works of fiction like “The Domain of Arnheim”. This short story was recognized for its repeated use of topothesia. According to author and professor at York University, Brett Zimmerman, “the tale’s entire second half is a description of Arnheim, an artificial paradise on Earth – “the phantom handiwork, conjointly, of the Sylphs, of the Fairies, of the Genii, and of the Gnomes” (6: 196). We also have “Landor’s Cottage: A Pendant to ‘The Domain of Arnheim’.” That piece really has no plot; it is extended topothesia – an exercise in picturesque description of a place…”
   Kirk Hammett wrote the guitar riff for the bridge section when he was only 16 years old. The band was inspired for the song by the second half of the film "The Ten Commandments", which is based on the Bible tale of the plagues which were bestowed upon the Egyptians. While watching a scene in which one of the plagues kills every Egyptian first-born child, Cliff Burton remarked "Whoa – it's like creeping death." The band liked the sound of "creeping death" and decided to write a song about the plagues, with the phrase as its title.
  
  Section::::Biblical references.
   appeared as part of a catch in "The Academy of Complements". In 1744 these lines appeared by themselves (in a slightly different form) in "Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book", the first extant collection of nursery rhymes. One eighteenth-century editor, possibly Oliver Goldsmith, added a note: "This is a self evident Proposition which is the very Essence of Truth. 'She lived under the hill, and if she is not gone she lives there still', Nobody will presume to contradict this."
  
  The 1810 edition of "Gammer Gurton's Garland" included a variant
   Section::::Use in United States politics.
  
  On 9 January 1961, President-Elect John F. Kennedy quoted the phrase during delivered to the General Court of Massachusetts:
  
  On November 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan referred to the same event and image in his Election Eve Address "A Vision for America"
  
  and in his January 11, 1989, farewell speech to the nation:
  
  U.S. Senator Barack Obama also made reference to the topic in his commencement address on June 2, 2006 at the University of Massachusetts Boston:
   In 1949, Morris Marples "half-humorously" coined the words "leucippotomy for the cutting of white horses and gigantotomy for the cutting of giants on rare occasions". Though neither word appears in the Oxford English Dictionary, the terms occasionally appear in print.
  
  Section::::Construction.
  
  Until recently, three methods were used to construct white hill figures.
   Due to the horrific nature of this narrative, the phrase "valley of trouble" became eminently proverbial and occurs elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Isaiah and Book of Hosea use the term – "the valley of trouble, a place for herds to lie down in", "the valley of trouble for a door of hope", as a way of describing the redemption promised by God.
   There is a section of upper Parel Vallei road that is known as Spook Hill. On this section of the road it appears as if downhill is uphill and vice versa. It is an optical illusion best viewed in front of Straightway Head Country House, at the top of the Parel Vallei Road. Because it appears that cars roll uphill here, Spook Hill has generated discussion whether this apparent phenomenon is an optical illusion, is due to magnetism, or is one of the world’s great unsolved mysteries. 
   The story is recalled in a first-person perspective by the geologist William Dyer, a professor at Arkham's Miskatonic University, in the hope to prevent an important and much publicized scientific expedition to Antarctica. Throughout the course of his explanation, Dyer relates how he led a group of scholars from Miskatonic University on a previous expedition to Antarctica, during which they discovered ancient ruins and a dangerous secret, beyond a range of mountains higher than the Himalayas.
   Achor
  
  Achor ( "muddy, turbid: gloomy, dejected") is the name of a valley in the vicinity of Jericho.
  
  Section::::History.
   In Coats Grove, Michigan, a teenager with anger management issues named Bobby Rich gets into an argument with his stepfather Phil about yard work. Bobby eventually darts into a nearby orchard to evade Phil, but the latter gives chase. Later, Bobby's mother, Patti, enters into the orchard and finds Phil dead, his body almost entirely buried in a mud puddle. A terrified Bobby is next to the body.
   There Was a Man in Our Town
  
  "There Was a Man in Our Town", also known as "The Wondrous Wise Man" or "There Was a Man in Thessaly" is an English nursery rhyme.
  
  There was a man in Thessaly,
  
  And he was wondrous wise,
  
  He jumped into a thorn bush,
  
  And scratched out both his eyes
  
  And when he saw his eyes were out,
  
  He danced with might and main,
  
  Then jumped into another bush
  
  And scratched them in again.
  
  or
  
  There was a man in our town,
  
  And he was wondrous wise,
  
  He jumped into a bramble-bush,
   When Twilight Shadows Deepen
  
  "When Twilight Shadows Deepen", unofficially known as "Twilight Shadows" is the University of Massachusetts Amherst's alma mater. It was composed by Fred D. Griggs, a 1913 graduate of the school, and trustee from 1928 until his death on December 22, 1942. 
   Eildon is said to be a "hollow hill", and is mentioned in the legend of Thomas the Rhymer. Some believe Thomas went under the hill itself, and certainly part of the ballad occurs in the vicinity. Sir Walter Scott tells the tale of a horse dealer who is paid in 'ancient coin' by an elderly buyer in old-fashioned dress and taken inside the hill at night. A host of armed knights lie asleep at their horses' feet; their sleeping leader is King Arthur. Shown a horn and a sword, in confusion the dealer blows the horn: the men begin to awake and a loud voice indicates that he has been proved a coward for not seizing the sword first. A whirlwind ejects him from the chamber and outside he tells his story to some shepherds before dropping dead of exhaustion. Scott identifies the elderly man as Thomas the Rhymer.
   There Is a Green Hill Far Away
  
  "There is a green hill far away" is an Anglican hymn. The words are by Cecil Frances Alexander; and the most popular tune by William Horsley. It was written to create a musical version of the words from the creed 'Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried.’
   In Nordic folklore, the ättestupa is a cliff where elderly people were said to leap, or be thrown, to death. While the practice has no historical evidence, the trope has survived as an urban legend, and a metaphor for deficient welfare for the elderly.
  
  Section::::By culture.:Greece.
   BULLET::::- Wabe: The characters in the poem suggest it means "The grass plot around a sundial", called a 'wa-be' because it "goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it". In the original "Mischmasch" text, Carroll states a 'wabe' is "the side of a hill (from its being soaked by rain)".
  
  Section::::Linguistics and poetics.
   Section::::Allusions.
  
  In T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land," Part I, "The Burial of the Dead" ends with the following passage:
  
  There I saw one I knew, and called him, crying:br
  
  Stetson! You who were with me in the ships at Mylae. br
  
  That corpse you planted last year in your garden: br
  
  Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? br
  
  Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? br
  
  Oh, keep the dog far hence, that's friend to men, br
  
  Or with his nails, he'll dig it up again. br
  
  You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!
  
  Section::::Sources.
   "A deserted, mountainous spot."
  
presuppositions: Its a weird hill to die on, Is a legitimate phrase. 
corrections: I will die on this hill, is the actual phrase. 
raw_presuppositions: Its a weird hill to die on, Is a legitimate phrase.  Its a weird hill to die on, Is a legitimate phrase. 
raw_corrections: I will die on this hill, is the actual phrase.  I will die on this hill, is the actual phrase. 