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<blockquote data-quote="chrisy" data-source="post: 451609" data-attributes="member: 3193"><p>sorry another history lesson</p><p>#1....that is how the 'Silhouette' was made a French aristocrat was so tight he would not pay to have his portrait done in colour, this was the only way the artist could keep the cost down by just drawing his outline. </p><p></p><p>#2....That is also why a bride carries a bouquet of flowers to cover the smell....and on Bath night the head of the house would go first and then it would go down in sequence so the baby would go last hence the saying 'Don't throw the baby out with the bath water' because by then it was so merky. The wig thing in using a loaf, that is how the saying 'using your loaf' when you have a good idea as here, your 'head' in rhyming slang is called 'your loaf of bread'</p><p></p><p>#8....In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. That's where we get the phrase, "mind your P's and Q's" this is just another version.</p><p></p><p>One more.....</p><p>In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".</p><p></p><p>I have a book of these old meanings of phrases called 'Myths, Quotes and Phrases'. it is very interesting.</p><p></p><p>Mike sorry to take over your thread. it is a subject close to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chrisy, post: 451609, member: 3193"] sorry another history lesson #1....that is how the 'Silhouette' was made a French aristocrat was so tight he would not pay to have his portrait done in colour, this was the only way the artist could keep the cost down by just drawing his outline. #2....That is also why a bride carries a bouquet of flowers to cover the smell....and on Bath night the head of the house would go first and then it would go down in sequence so the baby would go last hence the saying 'Don't throw the baby out with the bath water' because by then it was so merky. The wig thing in using a loaf, that is how the saying 'using your loaf' when you have a good idea as here, your 'head' in rhyming slang is called 'your loaf of bread' #8....In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. That's where we get the phrase, "mind your P's and Q's" this is just another version. One more..... In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight". I have a book of these old meanings of phrases called 'Myths, Quotes and Phrases'. it is very interesting. Mike sorry to take over your thread. it is a subject close to me. [/QUOTE]
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