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A common US euphemism for getting pregnant is "knocked up."
Which caused me some consternation when I heard the phrase on a visit to UK ....
Then there is the old joke about a very pregnant woman crossing the street in front of a large, oncoming truck. The driver braked just in time to miss the mother-to-be and yelled out the window : "Hey Lady! You can get knocked down, too!"
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Pooh-Bah
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>some consternation when I heard the phrase on a visit to UK ....
And at what time were you knocked up?
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Well, while I haven't the foggiest notion where it came from, "falling pregnant" is a term I have known for a very long time and didn't even consider as potentially uncommon!
This explains a common term that I've heard over the decades but never quite understood - fallen woman. I knew what it meant but NOT why it was used. The light has shone.
As for my predecessors I have it on good faith that none of them were fairies and they were also far from immaculate!!
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Pooh-Bah
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I must have been away with the fairies then.
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