The Long Trail: What the British Soldier sang and said in 14-18

[Beechhill]

I remember "dogs" being used as a colloquial term for feet in Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" when I read the English version. I wonder if rhyming slang made it to rural Oklahoma or? 

[Pat Atkins]

Did a quick Google re dogs and found an post about American usage here which suggests dogs was used for feet as early as 1913, and in the US Marines in the 1960s. Also seems to follow OED in attributing it to rhyming slang via dog's meat. Interestingly, there's a specific mention of the use in rural America in the past.

[gmac101]

Swinging the lead is a navy phrase. Deploying the sounding lead to measure the depth of water under the ship was hard work. Swinging the lead meant pretending to deploy it correctly hence avoiding the real labour of hauling it up.

[Marilyne]

question... is this 2019 P&S published book the same in just another layout/version?? 

I guess so, just want to be sure ... 

 

M.

[David Filsell]

Yes, it is.

[Marilyne]

thanks !!

Might put it on my next X-mas wish list …

 

M.

[David Filsell]

Went for a long walk this am. Walked in unsuitable shoes, foolishly. My dogs were really barking when I got back! 

[Marilyne]

4 hours ago, David Filsell said:

Went for a long walk this am. Walked in unsuitable shoes, foolishly. My dogs were really barking when I got back! 

 

I need to remember this for (next years's...) marching season! "what is it Boy?? Got your feet barking already after 40 km??" LOL

I do have ONE little book on Tommie's expressions, but it's somewhere in my pile for which I do not have the books shelves yet... we are impatiently waiting for IKEA to open again... 

 

M.

[David Filsell]

Marilyne

I have long wished bookshelves could reproduced themselves in the same way that books seem to!

regards

David