Oh Gordon Bennett!! For Petes sake!!

[leedsrevolution]

Who were these people and how did they get sayings named after them. Also, any other slang you use without knowing the origin?

My grandad used to always say "your not as green as you are cabbage looking" fuck knows what he meant by that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My old Welsh economics teacher used to say 'Always remember lads, a can of cucumber's not a can of corn.'

Never got to the bottom of that one.

[Giggles]

Who were these people and how did they get sayings named after them. Also, any other slang you use without knowing the origin?

My grandad used to always say "your not as green as you are cabbage looking" fuck knows what he meant by that.

I'd interpret that as being you're not as thick as you look.

[Giggles]

I didn't like saying. You're just lucky Magic isn't about.

[Adamski]

Wasn't Gordon Bennett the first man to swear on TV?

[Kikó]

That's Gordon Ramsey.

[Disco]

Gordon Bennett ran a newspaper.

[phonics]

Yeah, in looking it up I also found out it's not 'Cor Blimey' but 'Gor Blimey' originating from 'God Blind Me'

Language is fun.

[Reg]

I always thought "Gordon Bennett" was a way for people who are offended by such things to avoid saying "God" in a frustrated tone.

That sentence is shit but I can't think of how to improve it.

[phonics]

I always thought "Gordon Bennett" was a way for people who are offended by such things to avoid saying "God" in a frustrated tone.

That sentence is shit but I can't think of how to improve it.

It is as noted in the posts above. It comes from Gor Blimey. Gordon Bennett was a newspaper man who lived a famously opulent lifestyle at the time.

[Disco]

Sponsored a load of early motor races, and peed in a piano.

[John]

I like the origin of 'steal my thunder'. It's from a snotty playwright who wrote a terrible play and came up with a new way of making the sound of thunder in the theater. The method caught on, the play was scrapped, and he had a tantrum about it in print.

[Shindig]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Adams

Okay, that's an origin I wasn't expecting.