The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #171245   Message #4142408
Posted By: Mr Red
24-May-22 - 03:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Olde Sayings
Subject: RE: BS: Olde Sayings
Goggle can only manage "Alma mihi et Beate Martine" > Alma me and Blessed Martin

And cannot translate "Alma Mater" nourishing mother (go figure)

Shipshape and Bristol fashion. originally meant upright, as in the angle of repose of the mud in the Bristol Avon. The bottoms of the boats were at that angle so that as the tide receded the ships settled in the mud upright. Or so I read long ago.