bumps a daisy / billy-o
French translation: leave "bumps a daisy" in quotes (with explanation in parentheses)
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leave "bumps a daisy" in quotes (with explanation in parentheses) Explanation: bumps-a-daisy is the name of a dance but is also what some people say when they hit a bump in the road or take a tumble buses. In Teletubbyland, the Tubbies dance a bumps-a-daisy dance. ... buses. In Teletubbyland, the Tubbies dance a bumps-a-daisy dance. ... https://www.kcts.org/seriesdetail. asp?N1=TTUB&Page=11&TimeFrame=Upcoming BBC - Parents' Music Room - Musical Games With Baby - [ Traduire cette page ] Bumps-a-Daisy. This is an activity that you could do with your child from about six months, when they have a bit more strength to support themselves. ... www.bbc.co.uk/music/parents/yourchild/ prebirth_18mnths/musical_games.shtml -------------------- Billy-o Nobody knows where the idiom really comes from, though the first part might be from Billy, a pet form of William, which has been a common generic term for a man in parts of Scotland and the north of England for centuries. The first recorded use is in the phrase “Shure it’ll rain like billy-oh!”, from The Record of 1885, in which the spelling of sure hints at an Irish origin. It’s rather more probable that it’s a euphemistic reformulation of the phrase like the devil, which dates back to Shakespearean times. There are expressions, older than billy-o, in which Billy is a euphemism for the devil: billy-be-damned and giving somebody all billy hell, so it would seem that there’s probably a devilish connection in there somewhere. http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-bil1.htm |
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