Showing posts with label rhyming slang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhyming slang. Show all posts

Sunday 6 November 2011

'I got plastered last night'

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6 November

I didn't, but we know what it means:

Why does it mean that?

* Rhyming slang ('plastered wall'?)?

* Corruption of another word (mastered?)?

* Cultural reference (e.g. a film in which getting covered in plaster, as Laurel and Hardy do all the time, has something to do with booze)?


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