Hi,
Mike Johnston wrote:
> Bob Walkden wrote:
>> 2 more shops in Pied Bull Yard, can't remember the names
>> Museum Cameras flew by night...
> For our foreign members who may not know the meaning of this term, I offer
> this definition, from the book _2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings, and
> Expressions, from White Elephant to Song and Dance_:
>>>>
> Fly-by-night
> Quite properly, anyone who is a "fly-by-night" is one who decamps secretly
> or departs hurriedly or clandestinely, usually at night, from a scene of
> recent activity, as from solicitous creditors or from anxious purchasers of
> worthless mining stocks or the like. In any case, he is a four-flusher, a
[...]
which, I'm reliably informed, is exactly what happened. It seems that
the owner backed a van up to the door sometime after midnight, loaded
up the remaining stock (which included George Rodger's Nikons), and
disappeared, never to be seen again.
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Cheers,
Bob
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