like the clappers
like the clappers by Terry222 July 31, 2017
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going like the clappers
going like the clappers by heffalump July 10, 2005
going like the clappers
anything which appears to be going fast or repetitvly.
from either the loose hammers inside churchbells, or an old shrove tuesday custom involving begging by clapping stones together
from either the loose hammers inside churchbells, or an old shrove tuesday custom involving begging by clapping stones together
going like the clappers by metaneme August 1, 2007
Pray like the clappers
Praying furiously fast and with great earnestness. An Australian expression. In Australia, clappers were bird scarers that ran around like mad things.
Pray like the clappers by wordlady1 May 29, 2010
Go like the clappers
Posh girls have good manners, but they go like the clappers because they never got to hang around with boys at school
Go like the clappers by Joecls May 23, 2022
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)