LOL.....Yeah Rowan, I know, but words, as you know, often run off and are lost far afield from their origins. They then become the fodder of jokers and punsters or are left out there to hang and make us all wonder, trying to think back on things like...........

Where the hell did "lickety-split" ever come from? Lickety-Split? Geeziz, are you huffing me or what? Lick? Split? Yeah, right then.........
Or what about "Petered Out" for that matter?
Or "Fagged Out" as in tired? Where the hell did that one come from?

All of those have some interesting imagery in today's use of the words.................

Spaw