Old Sayings.

[Red Lead Ted]

That wont happen on my watch !!!!!!!!! The only watch they ever put in was in the movies. Another one used every day {You got me over a barrel.} Goes back to the days of sail a seaman would be lashed over a barrel hands and feet tied and whiped. What about {Three sheets to the wind} Eratic behaviour by the ships sails if three sheets were loose. By and large, Goes back to the days of sail {To be able to sail into the wind} Hand over fist,{ To pull a rope hand by hand} Finish on this one my favorite { Get a word in edgwise} Edging forward was a term used to describe the small progress a ship would make sailing against the wind by using small tacking ,zig,zag movements. Sail on lads Terry.

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thought i might as well put you out of your misery Terry, although, as you mentioned, you were a frequent guest of the constabulary in their Cheapside lock-up, i thought you'd have been familiar with the term...... The Snooker Room 'in off the white' which as you will be aware referred to those who were unable to handle the Aussie White in Yates' Wine lodges which there were quite a few in the 'Pool. apparently it is still in use as student accommodation.

gilly

Them were the day,s m8 sawdust everywere your right it is still in use i have often gone past by car and wondered who was in there Cheer,s m8 Terry. p.s. John click the link m8 i dont remember him?????????? Then again i dont remember the times i spent there just the getting out the next day

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[john sutton]

heard a good one on television the other night.
"on it like a tramp on a kipper"
john sutton

[John Gill]

just checked out your link Terry---don't recall fighting past her to enjoy sleeping it off after a night in the Moofields branch of Yates'!!

[Tony Morcom]

Her name is Marina, she’s 27 and she’s a philologist! Now you might be asking what the heck is a philologist? Well, it’s someone who studies linguistics and etymology.. and in Marina’s case.. she has applied her Philology degree to specializing in word origins.

She had been featured on shows like O'Reilly, G4 TV, Spanish TV, Maxim Sirius Radio, Fox TV, and Wired Magazine's Sexiest Geek.

Check out one of her videos where she explains the term Three Sheets to the wind and its origins. N.B. The video also explains Irony.

[Jim Brady]

For those of you that follow horse racing ,when a horse is finishing fast and may go on to win the race,you hear the commentator saying"It's coming through with a wet sail".Would a wet sail make a ship go faster than a dry sail??
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Capt Bill Davies]

Jim,

In the days of sail, men were sent aloft to 'wet down' the sails for that very purpose of gaining extra speed.

Bill

[Red Lead Ted]

Her name is Marina, she’s 27 and she’s a philologist!

You really should get out more m8 were did you find her in the days of sail there were ropes aboard a sailing ship that were called ropes. After sail the ships we sailed in always had a bell rope? And the only string aboard a ship is attatched to a guitar