kicking up bob's-a-dying

chained_bear commented on the word kicking up bob's-a-dying

"Wearing long togs to astonish friends and relations ashore was gratifying to the mind, and so was screeching and hallooing around the streets of Gosport or kicking up bob's-a-dying from Wapping to the Tower; but apart from fun of that sort, the land's main function was to provide marine stores—it was not a place for real existence."

--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 27

See also bob's-a-dying.

March 3, 2008