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Break out your bonnet! It’s time to learn some some phrases from an era when Queen Victoria ruled England, and things were chaste, but interesting.
Butter up the bacon – a statement of excess. An alternate phrase is “over-egging the pudding.”
Cop a mouse – get a black eye
Gigglemug – a face, always on the verge of smiling or laughter
Got the morbs – feeling blue or depressed, as in “morbid.”
Make a stuffed bird laugh – so ridiculous, cheesy.
Cat-lap – a weak drink, as in it’s too “soft.”
Other interesting history from this era:
The terms “light” or “dark” meat, to describe chicken, came about in the 1890s to replace the “obscene” words chicken “breasts” and “thighs.”
Cupid was a buffed, Adonis-type figure. The Victorians replaced it with a sweet chubby baby, devoid of any sexuality.
I personally love the Victorian era’s class, when it wasn’t being…
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