What is the meaning of yarn. Phrases containing yarn
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I'm So Sure You Get The Idea
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money in banknotes, 'folding' money - orginally US slang according to Cassells, from the 1900s, also used in the UK, logically arising because of the leaf allusion, and green was a common colour of dollar notes and pound notes (thanks R Maguire, who remembers the slang from Glasgow in 1970s).
Thumbing your nose at a senior shipmate behind their back. It is reminiscent of a person taking a sight with a sextant, but it is not meant for navigation.
Phrase used to refer to somebody who the speaker feels is posh or arrogant, or upper class.
Alice is Australian slang for Alice Springs.
Penitentiary, jail
A traditional call made at wakey-wakey. Originated in the days of sail when women were allowed aboard ship. A woman in a sailor's hammock would display a leg and thereby the sailor was not required to turn out.
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