I also very much like the “worms.” The most famous “Diet of Worms” of 1521 might lurk somewhere behind that
(Advertisement spot: Lose Unsightly Pounds the Cretaceous Way). I look forward to what these little fellers actually said in the Edict of Worms. But my favorite has long been the “town drain,” which is Oxbridge specific, as when one went “up” to school, and “down” for rustication (leaving school). Town drain, indeed. Indeed.