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Can anybody explain please what is behind the phrases with 'sausage'?
Clever sausage
Silly sausage
Little sausage
Old sausage
What do they mean, especially in England?
19 de jun de 2021 16:25
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It was interesting to read Charlie's response. I am a native North American English speaker, and I would not recognise any of these expressions.
19 de junho de 2021
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I have never heard of these, but they made me laugh.
I don't know which sausage I would prefer to be called!
19 de junho de 2021
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British native English speaker here. These would be "terms of endearment" for a much older generation - these are phrases from the 1940s or so. The ones I have heard from my grandparent's generation would be "old sausage" (like "old friend" - two old soldiers meeting each other for the first time in a decade!) and "silly sausage" (an old grandparent telling off a grandchild for doing or saying something a bit stupid!). "Clever" and "little" I have not heard used at all, but "little sausage" could be applied as a term of endearment between two lovers back in the 2nd World War era. It would not be used much now!
19 de junho de 2021
1
Clever sausage - I've never heard this; it may be an old-fashioned way of praising a child's intelligence...
Silly sausage - this is a gentle, affectionate way of of telling someone they've done something stupid: usually said by an adult (parent, family member) to a child
Little sausage - I haven't heard this one, but it might be an affectionate way of referring to a child - maybe a nickname..
Old sausage - this one seems vaguely familiar - maybe used affectionately by an elderly man to his wife. I'm not sure my wife would be very impressed if I called her this though! (Queen Elizabeth's husband Philip used to call her "cabbage" - apparently.)
19 de junho de 2021
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