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This one time, at band camp...Ever been "too big for your britches"?
This one time, at band camp...Ever been "too big for your britches"?
Around here, I only see kids wearing galoshes or rainboots. Like you said, most people just walk in the rain with their regular shoes. Personally, I prefer to wear my leather work boots if I can.
That goes along with "soup and fish" as a term for men's full-dress evening wear, from the fact that such clothes were required at formal dinners.
And then there's "monkey suit," which could be used either as a derisive term for formal clothes, or as a rather affectionate term for a baseball uniform. In either case it was a reference to the stylized outfits worn by performing monkeys -- which the wearers of either class of garments often considered themselves to be.
That goes along with "soup and fish" as a term for men's full-dress evening wear, from the fact that such clothes were required at formal dinners.
And then there's "monkey suit," which could be used either as a derisive term for formal clothes, or as a rather affectionate term for a baseball uniform. In either case it was a reference to the stylized outfits worn by performing monkeys -- which the wearers of either class of garments often considered themselves to be.
"You'll ruin your supper!" (or dinner, if you prefer)
I don't recall ever actually "ruining" either one ... and it shows.
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If you sail Cunard these days they still have what they call formal nights... but they're black tie and thus, semi- formal, affairs. Some of the other cruise lines boast what they term an "elegant night," where a clip on tie with a polyester polo shirt can be interpreted as ''elegant." I'm definitely more of the Cunard type.
Chances are that it's one of those sayings that people have heard of but are not aware of what it actually means.Shotgun wedding
Mores have changed so that it's unlikely that anyone under 50 would recognize it.
Chances are that it's one of those sayings that people have heard of but are not aware of what it actually means.
My father-in-law to be, although a lovely man, was a stickler for propriety. Tina was eighteen and I was twenty-two, we had been dance partners for about six months. Travelling around the country to compete in dance competitions was an expensive business, so to save on costs I asked for his permission to share a hotel room. His indignant reply was Victorian in every way. "If you want to sleep with my daughter, you'll marry her." So we did! How lucky was I?During the war a guy in my outfit received letter notice from his future father-in-law; either his daughter was wed,
or he would be dead, and the old man had been a marine in the South Pacific during WWII.
Special d-live mail taken quite seriously by its recipient who later married his preggers love.
How lucky was I?
I don't remember the last time I heard the term G.I. (that is, not associated with gastrointestinal). I get the feeling that it started to disappear with the end of conscription.