I thought I was being naive but Google says the only other example of that phrase ever being used in the whole of recorded internet history was from you two years ago on another thread.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I thought I was being naive but Google says the only other example of that phrase ever being used in the whole of recorded internet history was from you two years ago on another thread.
@wild edges I think it might be extremely local usage. Like our house. Think mad hatters but not just Lewis Carroll. The etymology might well date back as far as 1970 South East London piub. Neologisms have to start somewhere! You can tell your grandchildren that you were there when it was introduced into the CC lexicon. Edit: I am reliably informed a firefighter ( they were firemen then) at Peckham Fire station was the first to use this useful phrase.
We've had a nice bit of smoked fish in the freezer for ages. We don't eat much fish at all so it's a real treat that we've been looking forward to. I made a lovely job of cooking it and my wife even slapped on a generous amount of perfume for the occasion. She was a bit disappointed with the lack of flavour and I pointed out her eye-watering perfume might be masking the taste a bit. It was about then she realised her sense of taste and smell has gone.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@wild edges I have quite a few roses, chosen specifically for the strength of their scent, and realised that my sense of smell had gone when Gertrude Jekyll was flowering her socks off and I couldn't smell it. This was unrelated to covid and after five years has not come back and the medics tell me its unlikely to. I sympathise with your wife, it takes a lot of enjoyment from simple pleasures when you can't smell or taste.
A friend lost her sense of smell and taste due to Covid … it then went through various stages of particular foods tasting and smelling foul … there were many favourite foods she just couldn’t eat at all … it’s taken getting on for two years for her to get back to anything like her normal diet.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think I'm more gutted that the perfume wasn't for my benefit. She'd been sent a free sample with an order and put too much on when it didn't smell of anything. I though I'd lost mine this morning too but it's just because I'm a bit bunged up I think. Hopefully it's the same for her as she's the foody around here and cooking might get a bit random without smell or taste to guide her.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I thought I was being naive but Google says the only other example of that phrase ever being used in the whole of recorded internet history was from you two years ago on another thread.
Neologisms have to start somewhere!
You can tell your grandchildren that you were there when it was introduced into the CC lexicon.
Edit:
I am reliably informed a firefighter ( they were firemen then) at Peckham Fire station was the first to use this useful phrase.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.