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Hi Bill,
another phrase for showing astonishment is "Cor Blimey!", for some unknown reason I always associate it with cockney slang. Whether that's where it originated I have no idea.. :-S


Edit: just found an explanation for it and it says... derived from "God Blind Me" sounds about right ,don't ya think? :-D

Crows were unwelcome guests at sheep farms as, given the chance, they will kill and eat newborn lambs, so the association with annoyance isn't hard to see. The link in meaning to surprise isn't obvious, but then there's no particular reason to expect to find one. Stoning crows was a commonplace enough activity and calling it up into a phrase could have been done for no reason other than that the person who coined it just liked the sound of it. There are other expressions of surprise or annoyance like I'll go to the foot of our stairs, strike me pink, I'll be a monkey's uncle or if that don't take the rag off the bush. None of these have any sensible literal meaning and stone the crows is another to add to that list.

My grandmother always said 'Well I'll go to sea in a tar tub!'.

Budgie. A lot or even most of the cockney slang originated in the Royal Navy. then was transported to Australia, by Convicts.

Cor Blimey came from 'God blind me' when you see something you shouldn't have.

Sharron.Sounds like a naval expression.

An "old" Scottish word for crows is "corbies"

An old Scottish saying.........

After a battle, first come the corbies, then come the lawyers.



:-)

How brilliant you are LadyScozz :-D :-D

bill

Where did you get the information from that cockney slang originated in the Navy?

lol Bill

I like reminding my brother of that old saying. He's a lawyer :-D