Originally posted by sonhouse "It's crackers to slip the rozzer dropsey insnide"
"it's crackers " ..Meaning "stupid ,idiotic ,daft etc"
"Rozzer"... A British term for a "cop,policeman "
"Dropsey"...To give a " backhander ,Bribe ...etc"
I would say its probably a "cockney " and i am going for ...."Lockstock and four smoking barrells "....?
Originally posted by phil3000 "it's crackers " ..Meaning "stupid ,idiotic ,daft etc"
"Rozzer"... A British term for a "cop,policeman "
"Dropsey"...To give a " backhander ,Bribe ...etc"
I would say its probably a "cockney " and i am going for ...."Lockstock and four smoking barrells "....?
snide is funny money
dont think its Lockstock ... rozzer is very old-fashioned slang
Originally posted by sonhouse "It's crackers to slip the rozzer dropsey insnide"
But a little more research reveals that:
Magersfontein Lugg is a fictional character in the Albert Campion novels, written by Margery Allingham (1904-1966). Lugg, in The Fashion in Shrouds (originally published in 1938), is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide". Mad Magazine just hijacked it.
Originally posted by avalanchethecat But a little more research reveals that:
Magersfontein Lugg is a fictional character in the Albert Campion novels, written by Margery Allingham (1904-1966). Lugg, in The Fashion in Shrouds (originally published in 1938), is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide". Mad Magazine just hijacked it.
Originally posted by Suzianne alligator=a piece of rubber from a tire you often see on roadways (often a piece of tread looking like an alligator's back)
zipper=the white dashed line down the middle of some roads
CB slang
Very good! I heard that one time actually on a CB, I had a kind of 500 mile commute a few years ago to Toledo, Ohio and that's where I came across that saying. It would be interesting to find out who invented it.