gellatly68
Deity upon a velocipede
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How about 'It gets my goat?'
Why is my goat gotten? Why am I annoyed about it?
Why is my goat gotten? Why am I annoyed about it?
Are you man enough to explain to our American friends what 'toss' is, in any amount and however aged? :lol:people talked an amazing amount of old toss then as now.
escargot1 said:Are you man enough to explain to our American friends what 'toss' is, in any amount and however aged? :lol:people talked an amazing amount of old toss then as now.
and are you prepared to explain that to our american friends....escargot1 said:She was only the cricketer's daughter, but she took a full toss in the crease.
And another happy piece of synchronicity on this Board - I'm a Reading man born and bred, and I work just round the corner from the old Huntley and Palmer's site!JamesWhitehead said:According to the cheapo Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms, Gets my goat is early 20th Century American but of obscure origin.
Partridge is a bit more help narrowing down the period to US, 1911, Anglicized by 1916 so on the verge of colloquial by 1937. Suggested relationship to French prendre le chêvre, to take the milk-goat which was the poor man's only source of nourishment.
To me, that French saying is more like Take the biscuit, a slightly different saying.
Looking up that we find that The Biscuit was a 10:30 pm train which ran between Reading and London, carrying those items from a factory there, c 1910 onwards.
Taking the Biscuit is a variant of Take the Bun which was a variant of Take the kettle. Taking the Huntley & Palmer is listed as a variant of Take the Bun but is surely more closely related to Biscuits.
Addictive though Partridge is, it always makes me think that people talked an amazing amount of old toss then as now. The changes are interesting though.
By strange coincidence, looking up the Biscuit Train, which was new to me, I found that plans are afoot to bring it back. And yes, the factory was Huntley & Palmers. Newspaper story, 7th of this month:
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gellatly68 said:And another happy piece of synchronicity on this Board - I'm a Reading man born and bred, and I work just round the corner from the old Huntley and Palmer's site!
escargot1 said:All proverbs, even apparently obscure foreign ones, can be understood with a minute's thought. s'not rocket science.
Yes, said misquotation being the Fine Fare advert I cited in the first place. The words all existed, definitely. In that sequence, no they didn't.Frobush said:EDIT -
stuneville said:Actually, that was apparently made up for a Fine Fare commercial. Nobody actually said it before then.
Not according to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary!
— PHRASES many a little makes a mickle (also many a mickle makes a muckle) many small amounts accumulate to make a large amount.
— ORIGIN Old English.
— USAGE The forms mickle and muckle are merely variants of the same (now dialect) word meaning ‘a large amount’. However, the alternative form of the proverb (originally a misquotation) has led to a misunderstanding that mickle means ‘a small amount’.
Morcombe and wise, andrew preview lolSo... you're playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order? :lol:
I know glamour dust is gone but anyway:These are strange to me. Some very.
Source here
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A black hen lays a white egg.
A cat in gloves catches no mice.
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.
As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
Dogs that put up many hares kill none.
Every barber knows that.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
Fish and company stink in three days.
"Hamlet" without the Prince of Denmark .
So... you're playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order? :lol:
Classic british comedyI saw that on its first showing. Previn was a GOD at the time so it was scandalously funny.
Classic british comedy