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Message board > Word of the day-Phrase of the day -WOD/POD Weekend*
Word of the day-Phrase of the day -WOD/POD Weekend*
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misseleonora
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Word of the day-Phrase of the day -WOD/POD Weekend*
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This is a great honor and responsibility, but acting quite irresponsibly I will dare to change the rules a bit and post a made-up phrase this time. It means you won�t find this POD in any dictionary, so don�t even try. I just hope this is allowed, if not I will be at your disposal for whatever the law has to do with me:) Here it goes: " to blow one�s wig before the farmer digs"
I will choose the winner Sunday night/Monday morning (Spanish time) so you have the whole weekend to send your entries. The chosen definition will be the first to be part of the new ESL glossary.
Anyone can participate! So, don�t be shy and post a definition only if it is witty, silly, crazy, twisted, meaningless, childish or incredible. Ready, steady, GO!!!!
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27 Aug 2011
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maryse pey�
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How did the player of the French horn know that the farmer is wearing a wig as a hat to go digging ? And what had this farmer done to make the player of the French horn so furious that he decided to blow as strongly as the wind to blow out his wig ???
That �s the summary of the last episode - and so badly unknown - of Sherlock Holmes � Adventures... but I am not sure to remember the end of the story...
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27 Aug 2011
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Apodo
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to blow one�s wig before the farmer digs
This saying arose during the mid seventeenth century when wig wearing was the fashion for men of the time. The illustration below gives an example of one of the inherent problems of wearing a powdered wig: powder on the shoulders.
 Charles-Alexandre de Calonne by �lisabeth-Louise Vig�e-Le Brun (1784)
London, Royal Collection
The labourers, land workers and tenant farmers laughed at such niceties, and used to delight in secretly aiming small pebbles at the rich land owners� wigs while they were digging, pretending the stone had been flicked up accidentally. They laughed and snickered to themselves when they saw the powder fall on to the men�s coats. To limit the amount of powder that could potentially fall, men of the day were advised that one should �blow one�s wig before the farmer digs�.
This, of course has led to the current term spoken to those with bad dandruff:
�Farmer been digging?�  |
28 Aug 2011
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