but....
that's the nature of language, isn't it? It changes, it adapts, it takes on new meanings in new situations. If all phrases had to stick rigidly to their original meanings then we would have to keep making up new ones. The point is that it originated somewhere and it's not a great leap of imagination to see it in it's new meaning.

But again, I've not had twatty bosses use it on me, amid a shower of other bollocks, so for me personally it remains untarred by that brush. Hence, I suspect, my warmer feelings for it.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:45, Reply)