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And if you eat too many of them, your circumference and area increase! ..which brings up right back to body parts  I can't believe no-one has mentioned stiff upper lips yet. Or giving someone lip.
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>I can't believe no-one has mentioned stiff upper lips yet. Or giving someone lip.
Now, don't get lippy with me Bridget!
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My father used to promise me a thick lip if ever I put his nose out of joint. And when I piled my plate high it was a commonplace for the familyto introduce me as the boy whose eyes were bigger than his stomach.
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and if your father had to lecture you on your misbehavior, he would give you an earful and you might get a snootful for having a bellyful.
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I love the expression "don't give me GBH of the ear'ole", one of my favourite lines from TV. Jo and co. will, I'm sure remember The Sweeney, and they were always telling people this. (For our benighted across-the-ponders, "GBH" is British legal slang for "gross bodily harm".) The Sweeney was Lunnon slang, and maybe still is, for the Flying Squad, a fast-response police unit. I'm told that The Sweeney is Cockney rhyming slang for "Sweeny Todd" -> plod -> policeman, but that could be wrong.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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"GBH" is British legal slang for "gross bodily harm".)
It's actually Grievous Bodily Harm.
And The Sweeney = Sweeney Todd = Flying Squad
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Maverick says: "GBH" is British legal slang for "gross bodily harm".)
It's actually Grievous Bodily Harm.
And The Sweeney = Sweeney Todd = Flying SquadAnd he's right, of course. I was very tired last night. 
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Has anyone mentioned having a "heart-to-heart" or going "head to head"?
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Has anyone mentioned having a "heart-to-heart" or going "head to head"?Whereas the French 'tête à tête' is closer to 'heart to heart' than 'head to head'. Hardly surprising people have trouble with foreign languages. 
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I'm impressed that so far no one has been tempted to be vulgar. Let's see how long it takes for someone to elucidate phrase I heard in Michigan, that a gossip had been "hung up by the tongue."
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