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Jun 20, 2022 13:52:07 GMT
Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 20, 2022 13:52:07 GMT
I mentioned All Change, Baron's Court in the book section Well worth reading It's got a lot of early 60s London slang which reminded me of Frank Norman's Stand On Me, published two years before Baron's Court in 1959 and which has a list of a few of the phrases that crop up. See below The list of slang The book cover
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Jun 27, 2022 0:07:21 GMT
Post by jsm on Jun 27, 2022 0:07:21 GMT
I'd always thought rube = fool was US idiom, not British
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Jun 27, 2022 6:17:45 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 27, 2022 6:17:45 GMT
I think it's from comes from Yiddish so found on both sides of the Atlantic
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