To curry favour

[AsleepInYorkshire]

Who would have thought it - to curry favour - or more correctly to curry Favel

Certainly appears that the pedants don't have it

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/what-i ... d-of-words

AiY

[bungeejumper]

Oh dear. Apart from the one about currying Favel, I had the original (and "correct") understanding of every linguistic example she gave. What an impossible, intractable old fart I must be.

Does anybody really talk about a damp squid?

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

I like the idea of an 'escape goat'

[dionaeamuscipula]

I like the idea of an 'escape goat'

Pre - Madonna, meaning a female with diva-like qualities which hark back to the heady days before "Desperately Seeking Susan".

DM

[PinkDalek]

Tinder bio?