Capel Lofft
@CapelLofft
✝️ Political and ecclesiastical history, Anglicanism, literature. Author of 'The Rage of Party: How Whig versus Tory Made Modern Britain'.
参加 January 2018
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Reading a Georgette Heyer novel and I come across the phrase 'that's all my eye and Betty Martin', meaning 'a load of old nonsense'. Apparently it was naval slang with roughly this origin:
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