Traffic Accidents at ‘Perilous’ Speeds
Just because carriages raced along at a top speed of only 10-12 mph did not mean that traffic accidents were not a serious danger.
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You Can’t Say That: Get Your Back Up
The phrase “get your back up” is one of those expressions we use all the time without thinking much about where it came from or what it really means.
Continue reading →You Can’t Say That~A bit of Pother
Here we go, deep into the rabbit hole again, with a unique, and possibly unfamiliar phrase! So could or would my characters have said “A bit of pother”?
Continue reading →You Can’t Say That~Cut off your nose
Do you think “Cut off your nose to spite your face” was said back in the Victorian era?
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