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1940 SLANG - Jimmydoorknobs - 03-12-2005 On more than one occasion I would bet the knocker up had awoken the recently knocked up.
Colin and James,
Call me a Yank if you like. Just don't call me late for 1940 SLANG - Walt's Daughter - 03-12-2005
Yes, I was not quite awake this morning when I wrote that. I should have expounded on it and not treated it as though you hadn't caught the drift! After my first cup of , I am now alert and can follow the gist of conversation.
I had an English friend who I used to email all the time years ago and she was talking to some yanks one day and said something (God how I wish I could remember the word) and they just about fell off their pub stools. Seems she said something innocent, that wasn't so innocent back home in the states. She was so embarrassed. 1940 SLANG - Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005 Does " knock knock " mean two are pregnant
Art 1940 SLANG - Walt's Daughter - 03-12-2005 1940 SLANG - Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005 To our Brit friends what does "Blimey " mean
Art 1940 SLANG - James Pickering - 03-12-2005
It is an expression of emphasis similar to the American Wow! or Good grief! 1940 SLANG - Jiggersfromsphilly - 03-12-2005 Scram ............ Leave in a hurry.
Nickle rocket ........... All show and no substance
Dope............. information or whats the story or Stupid as in he is a dope. 1940 SLANG - Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005 YAP is mouth
ARSE is ASS
Art 1940 SLANG - colinhotham - 03-12-2005 Art,
Blimey! You've got to be quick with answers here, James has beaten me to it.
All I can add is that it comes from old English - Blige Me - shortened from oblige me ??
Colin.
1940 SLANG - Jimmydoorknobs - 03-12-2005 ixnay--forget it.
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