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Date: Saturday, 25 June 2005 07:58 (UTC)no subject
Date: Saturday, 25 June 2005 08:26 (UTC)this page (http://www.ebrummie.co.uk/brummie_phrases.htm#H) implies it's at least as old as 1894 in Birmingham, which is not all that far from Leicester, where my father grew up.