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  1. churtonred

    churtonred Well-Known Member

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    Lol, she says not .Insists she read it somewhere. I'm not guaranteeing it though. :)
     
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    I'm afraid its not true, mate :D
     
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    A loose cannon (in a storm could fall down the hatches and crash through the hull).
    Swing a cat
    Taken aback
     
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    churtonred Well-Known Member

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    Yes, she's backtracking now!
    We've got a book here called "POSH and other language myths."
    Apparently the brass tacks is right though.
     
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    Jesus! slated in my absence! Ok, Ive checked these ones out ....keel over and on an even keel. Keel over, because if the keel went sideways the boat was going to capsize....on an even keel, the exact opposite, plain sailing ( to use another one :) )
     
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    And one of my pet hates is when I read ‘tow the line’, but 99% of the time I manage to not comment.
     
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    Shake/show a leg
    from the days when women were allowed on board ships in harbour when they were required to leave.

    A wide berth.
     
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    And when women were about to give birth, they were taken to the gun decks because that was the only place that was kept clear and clean, ready for action. As the father was rarely known, if the baby was a boy he was called 'the son of a gun.'
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Talking of transporting stuff by sea, that was how the tank got its name.

    When these new-fangled fighting machines were invented in the first war, they didn’t have a name but they had to be kept secret. When they were loaded on board to go to France they were referred to as ‘water tanks’ And the name stuck.

    The German panzerkampfwagen ‘armoured fighting vehicle’ would be a more logical name. Bit long though.
     
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    Too late, bud.
     
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    Lucky bag

    A lucky-bag is a receptacle on a man-of-war for all clothes and other articles of private property carelessly left by their owners, so-called because these articles were later auctioned off says A Sailor’s History of the U.S. Navy, “thereby making those Sailors fortunate enough to obtain new items for relatively little money ‘lucky.’”
     
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    Enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
     
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    The get out clause "Terms and conditions apply" was first used on the warranty of the Titanic :)
     
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