Do you know your Onions ?

[EternalOptimist]

In the olden days, when I were a lad, if you knew a lot about a subject, people would say
'he knows his onions'


and if something was rubbish, it was
'under the arm'

a shoddy building was
'jerry built'

and a very attractive bird was
'Im sure I married a fella'

[Mich the Tester]

and a very attractive bird was
'Im sure I married a fella'

You mean that in the days before the sexual revolution people didn't check beforehand and didn't know what they were looking for anyway?

[EternalOptimist]

You mean that in the days before the sexual revolution people didn't check beforehand and didn't know what they were looking for anyway?

no, it was a comparative pejorative hyperbole

[Mich the Tester]

no, it was a comparative pejorative hyperbole

I don´t think Lady Tester´s got one of those.