WANTED A SLANG PHRASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1586, 18 January 1884, Page 2

WANTED A SLANG PHRASE.

''Rude- hoys were once in the habit of calling after passerby, "Who's'your hatter 1" and it was considered a stroke of humor to remark as a man passed by •'The same old lrnt!" Possibly more impertinent was the question which arose in the early days of the Volunteer movement, " Who shot the dog ?" such an accident might have happened to an inexpett rifleman, and so have become a standing reflectionon the skill of the Volunteers at large. The remark that always, rouses Thames bargemen to fury, "Who ate the puppy-dog pie under Marlow Bridge f may also have had a comprehensible origin. An American "How's that for high 1" an expression of doubt at marvellous stories, hardly gained a footing here; and '' You'll get yourself disliked." a convenient form of repoof, had only a small run. At the present time London has no slang saying, but one is likely to crop up soon, A more or less odd phrase will strjko somebody and speedily be on the Jips of, scores'pf thousands,—Standard;