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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Expressions we use that come from the sea.

    “To get cracking.”

    This comes from mail ships that were penalised for late deliveries. These vessels would set all sails such that the canvas and rigging were so taut that they’d crack under the strain.

    Cue…. “I thought this were a football forum! Bad enough if it was Covid or politics! Can’t we have a separate section for expressions that come from the sea?”
     
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    Square meals, think that's a nautical thing, but I might have misheard that...
     
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    Batten down the hatches.
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Yes it is. Meals eaten off square wooden plates, easier to stack and didn't roll around. Got a book on this somewhere.
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Three sheets to the wind and sailing close to the wind.
     
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    MrsHallsToffeerolls Well-Known Member

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    The cut of one`s jib
     
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    Seaman stains
    Roger the cabin boy
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Come on Bossman. You need all 3 for the set....
     
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    I didn't see that one coming.....
     
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    Correct,I missed Master Bates :D
     
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    Sling yer ‘ook, or ‘take yer hook’ from dockers I believe.
     
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    Tar with the same brush?
     
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    Money for old rope might be another? Something about sailors selling old hemp rigging ropes?
     
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    Frigging in the rigging.
     
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    Sweet FA. It's not an abbreviation for sweet f000k all. In late victorian times there was a murder of a young girl called fanny adams. The papers called her "sweet fanny Adams" This coincided with the navy issuing meat flavoured biscuits which sailors had no idea what was in them. A bit of (very) dark humour, yhey would say the biscuits contained sweet fanny adams, abbreviated to "Sweet FA" probably to avoid the lash. Oh and there's another one, out on the lash, a night of carefree abandon and drunkeness that would result in the lash (but worth it) on the drunken and late return to ship.
    I also seem to recall "flogging a dead horse" is a nautical term referring to a dead calm patch of sea in the mid atlantic but have forgotten the exact origins
     
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    Apologies to any ex-matelots, First Sea Lord Winston Churchill on being told he was showing disrespect to naval traditions, replied "what? rum, sodomy and the lash"
     
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    Between the devil and the deep blue sea. The devil is the calking between the planks of a wooden hull.
     
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    W*nking on the planking
    Masturbating on the grating.
     
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