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Milk. given away free in schools in the UK until Mrs Thatcher became Minister of Education. Produced the 'rhyme' "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher, "Thatcher Snatcher Baby Basher". "Thatcher Snatcher" has stayed as her nickname ever since.
Thatcher was English slang for a pound coin.
A time of abject poverty for masses of citizens of the UK despite billions of dollars flowing into the Treasury coffers from oil revenue. Alternative view of this period passed on by Mike Blackburn: The 'Thatcher Years' were simply a period during which Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK. Your definition above is rubbish. This was the time of the housing boom in Britain, the yuppie arrived, there was a perceived turning away from any corporate mentality and an embracing of selfishness and personal gain. There was not widespread poverty, any more than there was during any other decade of the 20th century. The gap between rich and poor, however, did grow rather alarmingly. NOBODY refers to Thatcher Years as being a time of great poverty, aside, maybe, from misinformed Americans (you don't think Americans can be misinformed? Who voted for George W then?). (ed: I'm Welsh by birth and lived in Wales during most of the Thatcher Years. I know there was desperate poverty amongst many, many people - because I lived the horror myself and saw first hand the collapse of communities. There were streets I know where the only person working was employed by the DSS to administer payments to the others. The comment about the gap widening between rich and poor was spot on and resulted in Cardboard City - which was a community of hundreds of impoverished people who, had to live in boxes under Waterloo Station in the heart of 'affluent London'. And this was just one instance of overt degeneration of society under that government. Personally I think Mike was insulated somehow from the worst of Thatcherism. The larger part of the population suffered - badly!) Kevin sends in the following addition: 3 million unemployed officially but more like 6 million in reality. Miner's Strike; destruction of Britain's industrial base; top 10% never better off; bottom 10% never worse off. (ed: Anyone want to expand further - either side of the equation?) UK
Someone who's only means of subsistence is the money paid to them by the state to avoid hardship because they are unable or unwilling to work. The obvious trappings of poverty such as "clothes by Tesco", were a constant source of amusement to those children who were lucky enough to have slightly more affluent parents. Strange how they could almost always afford to smoke and drink but not buy decent food, clothes or shoes for their kids! The "Thatcher Years" were a depressing time for the British.
Insult directed at povvos, doleys and so on. Derived from Fine Fare supermarket's economy range of "Yellow Packet" products. Being seen with a bag of Yellow Packet crisps was tantamount to admitting you were receiving free school meals. "Ey, them trainies are dead yellow packet they are!", (Used during the early "Thatcher Years").
a pound coin (£1) - apparently used in South Yorkshire UK - the story is that the slang was adopted during the extremely acrimonious and prolonged miners' strike of 1984 which coincided with the introduction of the pound coin. Margaret Thatcher acted firmly and ruthlessly in resisting the efforts of the miners and the unions to save the pit jobs and the British coalmining industry, reinforcing her reputation for exercising the full powers of the state, creating resentment among many. When the pound coin appeared it was immediately christened a 'Maggie', based seemingly on the notion that it was '...a brassy piece that thinks it's a sovereign..." (ack J Jamieson, Sep 2007) If you have more detail about where and when this slang arose and is used, please let me know. I am grateful to J Briggs for confirming (March 2008): "...I live in Penistone, South Yorks (what we call the West Riding) and it was certainly called a 'Brass Maggie' in my area. Typically in a derisive way, such as 'I wouldn't give you a brass maggie for that' for something overpriced but low value. It never really caught on and has died out now..."
Noun. 1. A lump of excrement. Rhyming slang on 'turd'. [1980s] 2. A third (class degree). Rhyming slang. [1980s] * Douglas Hurd, Tory government minister during the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, and later John Major.
n slag heap. The large pile of detritus created in the process of coal mining: WhatÂ’s that brown mountain, dad? / ItÂ’s a bing, son, itÂ’s not a mountain. Your granddad used to work in that coal mine before Margaret bloody Thatcher closed it down and he had to spend the rest of his life in the pub whining.
The gerbil is British teachers' slang for the Thatcher government's Education Reform bill of .
Pronounced as a long, drawn out, low-voiced suuuur... followed by short, high pitched Keeith!). A general, all purpose insult, mostly used when passing friends in the halls . Doubt anyone but me and a few select others remember this - probably never made it outside my peer group, let alone my school. I have no idea where it came from, or what it actually means. (ed: I wonder if it had something to do with Sir Keith Joseph - he who introduced the GCSE - one time education minister under Maggie Thatcher??)
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One who thatches.
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A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
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Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
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An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
v. t.
One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.
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