how's your father

Sexual intercourse (English 20th century)
Provenance: how's your father? catchphrase associated with the British music-hall comedian Harry Tate (1872-1940). Apparently, he would exclaim it as a way of changing the subject and in order to get out of a difficult situation. The phrase either subsequently or simultaneously took on a life of its own meaning the same as a 'thingummy' or anything the speaker did not wish to name. From that, in phrases like 'indulging in a spot of how's-your-father', it became a euphemism for sexual activity.
From _Dictionary of Catchphrases_ (1995) by Nigel Rees

They were in the snug engaging in a spot of how's your father.

by Christian B2 July 26, 2006

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Stop trying to look for him here. He’s gone. Went to get milk. Maybe you need to go get milk too, you are starving.

Person 1: “Where’s your father?”
Person 2: “He went to the milk store.”

by 29YearsApart October 18, 2020

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Slap 'n' tickle; Bit of the other; casual sexual relations; Origin in World War II, English soldiers in France expected that an old French lady with grey hair, whom their father had bonked during the First World War might come up to them and ask this.

"Took her round the bike shed for a bit of how's-your-father";

"I don't want you two getting up to any how's-your-father while we're out!"

by mistweb October 13, 2003

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