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Bouncing a dart off a wire
, as in “to give something the up-and-down†A look
adj useless junk. While quite recent slang, it’s rather charming: Did your grandmother leave you anything good? / Nope, just a complete load of ancient bobbins. One possible etymology: that it’s from the north of England (particularly the Lancashire and Manchester areas), which used to be supported largely by cotton mills. As the industrial revolution drew to a close, the mills closed down and the population found itself with a surfeit of largely worthless milling machinery. During that time the phrase “‘twas worth nout but bobbins” sprung up; years later we’re left only with the last word.
Andrew Miller was nautical slang for a ship, especially a warship. The expression was used between the th and th centuries. In the early th century the expression came to mean the Royal Navy.
 Superior, real, genuine, good.
Used to secure the end of a line, to stop it from unraveling. This is one of the most durable and stable rope whippings used, as it winds around the line and is drawn taught by weaving in-between the cutlines of the rope.
If you want to sit down and someone is taking up too much space, you'd ask them to budge up - move and make some space.
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