Be sure to check out Kevin Sam’s latest post on various idiomatic indiscretions of the NEB (and REB)…
Anyone for “loose livers”?
Be sure to check out Kevin Sam’s latest post on various idiomatic indiscretions of the NEB (and REB)…
Anyone for “loose livers”?
Yum, yum! Looks good to me!
The first time I read that phrase in the NEB I thought it was some weird British idiom like anger coming from the spleen, or somesuch thing. Took me a minute a figure out that they meant someone who is “loving the loose life”!
Growing up, I remember many dinners of liver and onions… there was not enough ketchup in the world!
“Loose livers” I’m for eating it but not reading it. Yeah, that was something else to read.
I suppose another reading could be someone who drinks a lot and drinks often, e.g. a “loose-livered lush”.
Ohhhhh, ick! Did you actually eat that?
Hey… when you shoot a moose, you eat the moose, including the liver. Do you happen know how they make scrapple? I do…
I suppose another reading could be someone who drinks a lot and drinks often, e.g. a “loose-livered lush”.
El, that’s being rather creative.
By the way, what connotation is readily perceived behind the NEB’s “loos liver”? I rather curious.
TC- I was doing some Google searches on “loose liver” earlier, trying to see if I could find precedent for that particular wording as an active idiom in the first half of the 1900′s. There are a few examples out there in some books about Shakespeare, but I couldn’t determine if it was originally his phrase or not.
The connotation, I assume, would be along the lines of a “flapper”, or as Ricky Martin sang more recently, someone who is “livin’ la vita loca”.
That’s exactly what I pictured when I heard of loose livers. I never liked eating liver, but the picture sure makes it look more tasty.