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Post by blubex on Mar 14, 2016 18:55:50 GMT
One for the road. ...
When people were on there way to be executed they would stop the cart on the way to allow the condemned a pint of ale.
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Post by blubex on Mar 14, 2016 18:57:45 GMT
Falling off the wagon (one we're all guilty of? !!!!!)
The ale drank for the 'one for the road' was very strong and as a result the drunk, condemned men in their way to execution would often fall off the wagon!
I swear I'm not a sadist....I learned all these things on a London site seeing trip last year! !!!!
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Post by blubex on Mar 14, 2016 19:01:17 GMT
Piss Poor They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery…….if you had to do this to survive you were “Piss Poor” And if you were even poorer you 'didn't even have a pot to piss in'! |
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Post by AA on Mar 15, 2016 2:56:01 GMT
Keep a Stiff Upper Lip
Remain resolute and unemotional in the face of adversity, or even tragedy.
This is such a clichéd expression that it is difficult to imagine doing anything else with a stiff upper lip apart from keeping it. If you try to hold your upper lip stiff your facial expression will appear aloof and unsmiling, betraying little of any feeling you might be experiencing. That demeanour is the source of 'keep a stiff upper lip'. The 'do your duty and show no emotion' attitude was expressed in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
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Post by AA on Jan 9, 2017 0:58:36 GMT
Penguin, a compound of two Welsh words, pen and gwyn, which mean ''head" and ''white" - even though penguins have black heads. It is likely that 'penguin' was at one time the name of similar, now extinct bird which had a white patch near its bill.
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