Slow as a wet week
Ash Nallawalla
if it ought to be "as slow as a wet wick". Maybe it is. Does
anyone know?
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Bunweasel
>I often hear the phrase "as slow as a wet week" and have wondered
>if it ought to be "as slow as a wet wick". Maybe it is. Does
>anyone know?
>--
Those who measure their lives with coffee spoons (or cigarettes) have
an independent means of determining how much longer a wet week is
than a dry one. As for a wet wick, if you manage to light it at all
it will splutter consumptively until dry.
-Michael Norris
John Haxby
seaside resort). If it's sunny, you can enjoy yourself, if it
rains you can sit in bus shelters being bored and wishing the
end of the holiday would come so you can go home.
At least, this is what the rung bell suggests. Anyway I can always
claim to be ...
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Peter Moylan
> I often hear the phrase "as slow as a wet week" and have wondered
> if it ought to be "as slow as a wet wick". Maybe it is. Does
> anyone know?
I've always heard this as "as slow as a wet weekend", and think of it
as being similar to Charlie Brown's pronouncement that
"Summers fly, winters walk". The "wick" interpretation sounds
unlikely to me.
There's a similar saying about "a month of Sundays", but for the
moment my brain refuses to divulge the details to me.
Peter
wil...@vax.oxford.ac.uk
>
> There's a similar saying about "a month of Sundays", but for the
> moment my brain refuses to divulge the details to me.
>
> Peter
That's "It'll never happen in a month of Sundays", which means that It'll
happen slightly less often than once in a blue moon.
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lokic...@yahoo.com.au
Peter Moylan
On 22/01/15 15:26, lokic...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
> It's an Aussie saying which steamed from "slow as a wet wig".....waiting for wigs to dry after being washed
The actual Australian saying is "as slow as a wet weekend". We don't
pronounce "weekend" anything like "wig".
You might be confusing this with a similar saying "as slow as a wet
hen". That, of course, has a different meaning.
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Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
JE SUIS CHARLIE
Peter T. Daniels
> [Subject: Slow as a wet week]
>
> On 22/01/15 15:26, lokic...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
>
> > It's an Aussie saying which steamed from "slow as a wet wig".....waiting for wigs to dry after being washed
>
> I wonder whether any Australians know that.
>
> The actual Australian saying is "as slow as a wet weekend". We don't
> pronounce "weekend" anything like "wig".
>
> You might be confusing this with a similar saying "as slow as a wet
> hen". That, of course, has a different meaning.
Or maybe things have changed in more than 22 years.
Bertel Lund Hansen
> The actual Australian saying is "as slow as a wet weekend". We don't
> pronounce "weekend" anything like "wig".
--
Bertel, Denmark
Jerry Friedman
> [Subject: Slow as a wet week]
>
> On 22/01/15 15:26, lokic...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
>
>> It's an Aussie saying which steamed from "slow as a wet wig".....waiting for wigs to dry after being washed
>
> I wonder whether any Australians know that.
>
> The actual Australian saying is "as slow as a wet weekend". We don't
> pronounce "weekend" anything like "wig".
>
> You might be confusing this with a similar saying "as slow as a wet
> hen". That, of course, has a different meaning.
--
Jerry Friedman