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DEAD HORSE
I know it is an advance on pay but where did the term "dead horse" come
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DEAD HORSE
"B.C. MALLAM" wrote
I know it is an advance on pay but where did the term "dead horse" come from? Maybe in your 'group', it's "an advance on pay" but think for most it's -- Many years ago in my callow youth, I wanted to buy a nicer car, my mother loaned me some money needed, and I set about paying her back while driving same. Car got wrecked. I finished paying her back - truly paid for the "Dead Horse"power. And tend to believe the origin was also from a person paying the debt incurred (thou what it was incurred for was no longer viable). So in your example, advance on pay used for leave, leave was fun, nothing tangible left, now time to settle up accounts. |
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DEAD HORSE
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:50:10 -0600, "B.C. MALLAM"
wrote: I know it is an advance on pay but where did the term "dead horse" come from? Here's one explanation: British seamen were often ashore for significant periods between voyages. They tended to live in boarding houses near the docks as they sought a berth. Often they ran out of money and the innkeepers carried them on credit. When they got a berth the ship owner would advance a month's wages so that they could clear their debt ashore. During the first month aboard the diet was generally "salt horse" (beef of low quality preserved with salt). It was not "haute cuisine." :-) At the end of the month the crew wouild make an effigy of a horse and with great ceremony set it on fire and throw it overboard. This celebrated the end of having to eat "salt horse." There are other explanations, I'm told, but this one is as good as any! ;-) |
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