The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10292   Message #70850
Posted By: Steve Parkes
14-Apr-99 - 07:54 AM
Thread Name: Colloquialisms III - Podeldo & Essner
Subject: RE: Colloquialisms III - Podeldo & Essner
I'll stick to the easy ones, Rich! Penny: "jims" I think is "jim-jams". Nothing to do with nightwear, it's the same as the wim-wams, and related to the heebie-jeebies and the screaming ab-dabs; all of which seem to have been DTs in their first incarnations. No connection with the Dreaded Lurgi, the nadgers, soft shoulders, pink toenails or acte emulsion of the legs.

Steve