Oh good – a chance to rant! Why should a ‘pig’
mean someone nasty? Likewise, how come ‘bat’
equates to ‘daft old woman’, or a ‘cat’
a spiteful one? When someone wears a wig
it’s NOT ‘a syrup’. Why must people jig
around with words, like this? ‘I’ll eat my hat’
is ludicrous, and so is ‘smell a rat’.
Whatever’s meant by ‘couldn’t give a fig’?
It’s meaningless, that’s what, the same as ‘lie’
in ‘through his teeth’! Get mad – but why ‘see red’?
Such language mangling causes me to sob.
However did expressions like ‘to die
for’ come to be? Why does ‘they went to bed’
mean ‘they had sex’? Just who said ‘mug’ means ‘rob’?
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