Queer The Pitch Meaning Interfere with or spoil the business of a tradesman or showman. Origin Travelling showmen call the place they set out their stall a ‘pitch’. ‘Queer’ …
Queer Street Meaning An imaginary street where people in difficulty live. Origin This slang term was recorded in 1811 in an updated version of Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar …
Queer As a Nine Bob Note Meaning Odd or unusual. Also used to mean homosexual. Origin In the UK there used to be a ten shilling note, popularly called …
Quality Time Meaning Time in which individual attention is given to an otherwise neglected child or partner. Origin It will come as no surprise to read that this is …
Primrose Path Meaning The pleasant route through life, of pleasure and dissipation. Origin This phrase was coined by Shakespeare, in Hamlet, 1603. It is evidently a simple allusion to …
Pot To Piss In Meaning To have money or wealth. Example You want to have children! We can’t afford them, we don’t have a pot to piss in. Origin …
Politically Correct Meaning Description of the practice of using speech that conforms to liberal or radical opinion by avoiding language which might cause offence to or disadvantage social minorities. …
Pin Money Meaning Originally a small allowance given to a woman in order to purchase clothes etc. for herself. More recently it is used to describe any small amount …
Peter Out Meaning Dwindle away to nothing. Origin The earliest use of peter as a verb meaning dwindle relate to the mining industry in the USA in the mid-19th …
Peg Out Meaning Die. Origin This phrase is widely thought to have been taken from the scoring in card games like cribbage, in which the score is kept on …
