My Grandad would describe them as 'jigamatwist with a thingummybob on
top/underneath/at the side.....' or the other way round, depending on
if we got there first!
Don't we have some really descriptive phrases for unknown things in
our vocabulary!
Sue in EY
On 15 May 2009, at 08:14, Lynne Cumming wrote:
My father always explained unknown items as 'a wigwam to wind the
sun up
with'. He was pretty good at explaining most things but this was a
nice get
out clause and a good answer to the eternal child's question 'what's
that'!
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