For those interested, it’s a slang expression originating in bronze-aged England, derived from the traditional meaning of ‘a blaze’, or fire, referring euphemistically to the flames of hell, essentially, ‘What in the hell…!?’.ĭouble-points to any old saying with a colour in it, like ‘Purple patch’ for the ee gee, which relates to an extended run of good form.
Just yesterday, cries of ‘What in the blue blazes…!?’ rang out for no particular reason at all, just for the LOL’s. Best of all is our soft-furnishing phrases. Mumford HQ itself is built upon a foundation of weird old sayings proverbs and the such, you know, adages an’ that. I don’t have copyright clearance on those words by the way, so if an old fella in a long white robe with a gnarly beard asks… Remember that? Always hearted those old assembly-time anthems – though I always thought the foolish man probably threw down a meaner party in his house amongst the sand. The wise man built his house upon the rocks, house upon the rocks, house upon the rocks’.
