| OliveBit | Дата: Воскресенье, 06.12.2015, 14:35 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Live off the fat of the land a load of rubbish a slang expression for beer much used in the 19th century and still current today is wallop. In 1872, a certain victorian businessman called codd went into the manufacture of lemonade. It was sold in green glass bottles sealed with glass marble stoppers and was jokingly referred to as codd's wallop. Its poor quality, when compared to beer, although not perhaps with other lemonades, gave rise to the derogatory implications of the phrase. As above, a load of old codswallop is an extension of the saying.
And here's another fact!
The original story from “Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights” begins, “Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.”
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