Coalville Times | 1911-06-02 | Page 6 | Street Sayings Are Short Lived

Street Sayinps Are 8hort Lived. If Mime Loiulon alnlig hnri a short life, ti e stint sayings i urrent fur a time .i?s ii-.iny i v.-ii more qut.-kly. Mo-it of Hu tc, sin Ii ns "Has your ' mother sold hir ii.aiiKli'?" "Who shot I the i'i '.'" u:l "How are you off for I t-ni' p .'" snrvlie only In Ihe pages of route lupurury noM-liats. Some, lowever. have a long life). I "D.ti-s your moilier know you're out?" bus b. en inn ..I hack lo I'.lu and may possibly have been current luforo then. Iiihirs nre reilv.-d, w It It slight ulii ratlona. Ten yenrs ngu rude llitlo biys would tliiiut, "When, did you git Hint l,at?" when their grandfathers grand-fathers would X'-laim, "Whnt! Ihn rame old bat!" And the expression of dissent f mphnslzt d iiownilava by 'Not In ihene trousora!" list d to bo intiieiid llilrty .vents nro by Ihe tag. "Not In these hoots!" - London t'hron-Me.