Weekly Meeting
Thu, Nov 14th 2019 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Peter Hammond - the origins of everyday sayings
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14 November 2019 The origins of everyday sayings – Peter Hammond
Peter arrived half way through the meal due to localised floods but gave an enthusiastic and well delivered presentation on the derivation of many day to day sayings that we take for granted. He frequently engaged the audience looking for suggestions for the meaning of the huge variety of sayings. But do we ever wonder where they come from? Some date back to the Tudor period, while many others are nautical in origin. Peter told us about some of the fascinating and sometimes surprising origins of many of our everyday sayings, and reminded us too of the many local ones such as 'It's black over Bill's mothers' and 'Get to bed before the 10 o'clock horses come.'; ‘pulling your leg’ referred to finishing off people who had been hanged, by pulling their legs! The evening really wasn't a load of Codd’s wallop! AR/CR/PJ/PH
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