I am not sure if you got up very early Friday morning to watch the wedding of HRH Prince William and Kate.
The wedding ceremony was fine.
However, following the ceremony, due to the economic downturn and the extremely high price of gas, the entire wedding party was transported from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace in horse-drawn carriages!
Don't blame me. Blame Doug.
"After the Lord Mayor's Show comes the sh-t-cart." English proverb
ReplyDeleteIsn't it "petrol" on the other side of the pond?
ReplyDeleteLapin, that's always the way with horses and carriage.
ReplyDeletekt+, it is petrol over there, but I'm over here, and "the price of gas" has become the catch all for the troubles of the world when the price goes up. "The price of petrol" wouldn't trip off the tongue, rather the keys, quite so well.
And then, of course, there's the double entendre. Poor William and Catherine.
The proverb has far wider implications than just horses, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteLapin, does the info at this link explain the implications of the proverb well? Or is your version naughtier and perhaps not suitable for my blog?
ReplyDeleteIt's not dirty, it's that the glories of this world have to be cleaned up after, and, by extension, that one has to come back down to earth after them. The politer version, which my parents used, was "..... comes the dust-cart", but it's been a century or so since the full implications of that version, in terms of hoss-doo, would have been generally understood, even in the UK.
ReplyDelete