>
> > I'd just started Black & Blue when I ran
across the phrase
> > "like-your-loafers." Is that how that phrase
goes in the UK, or at
> > least Scotland?
>
> It isn't a phrase that's prevalent in the circles I
move in (I should
move
> in a straight line and then maybe I'll get where I'm
going) despite
the fact
> that I live in the same town as Mr Rankin. However,
a
"like-your-loafers"
> is a homosexual and the phrase is derived from an
imagined gay chat-up
line.
> It's probably a modification of an Ancient Greek
phrase which roughly
> translates as "like-your-sandals".
>
No self-respecting Ancient Greek would allow a man in loafers
in his tent. I think that's in Aeschylus somewhere.
Rene
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