The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140115   Message #3235765
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
08-Oct-11 - 09:38 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: 'Not a whore in the house...'
Subject: RE: Folklore: 'Not a whore in the house...'
Terry Wogan is wont to use "not a child in the house washed", and that's probably given it wider provenance. I suspect if you looked around you'd find it cropping up in some 19th century novel, but I would suspect any author using it as quoting it from having heard it. Probably started up as "not a child in the cave..."