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Thread #115525   Message #2474885
Posted By: Zen
24-Oct-08 - 10:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bury the Hatchet
Subject: RE: BS: Bury the Hatchet
"Dim as a Toc H lamp": (UK) meaning unintelligent, not very bright.

From the small-wicked, weak light lamp used at the "ceremony of light" Toc H (a UK Christian charity of WW1 armed forces origin)

Zen