So: at last it has happened.
The circle is complete.
I looked at the "dutch" phrase provided by the indomitable
@dreeness , by copying the text into the Google search engine, in the sure and certain hope of definition.
And where does it take me, dear reader? What does it offer-up??
Well....that would be the use of that exact-same phrase, here on FTMB, back in 2014 (in fact, just ten days short of
precisely 3 years, by someone called
@dreeness.....
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/words-and-phrases-you-love-using.57187/page-2
It is the
second search engine hit, out of a grand total across all eternity (to-date) of
just four instances over the whole of the internet. All appear to refer it back to Carnivàle.
And I'm still not entirely-clear what it is meant to mean....the
Google Books reference is not as helpful as it might be.
With great power comes responsibility.
Now:
@dreeness....make sure you can sit-down safely. Check for red snipers' laser dots on you chest, and leave that seafood sandwich to one side. You may be the last person on earth to fully-understand the meaning of this rare idiom.
When you respond to this post, in
this thread,
your answer (not yet written) will be the only answer in the universe to an as-yet unasked / unanswered / unthought question that
someone (somewhere/somewhen) will seek an answer to.
Amazing....