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Thread #23248   Message #257309
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
13-Jul-00 - 06:13 PM
Thread Name: Help: English Idiom Dictionary
Subject: RE: Help: English Idiom Dictionary
There was a man called Sir Frederick Gorringe,
Ran a department store called Gorringe's.
It was not the sort of place you could buy an orange,

But you could buy a set of silver porringers.

Which is perfectly true. It was near Victoria station in London.