Fabulous terms

Re: Fabulous terms

Dagmar Steele — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:57:01 GMT

haha, I don't think anyone told the wife they considered her a dragon nor the mother-in-law ;-) But it was widely used later if someone lets say went to buy flowers for the difficult neighbour's birthday or pralines before visiting a teacher that didn't have to say many good things about the children....

Re: Fabulous terms

Vet2Vet — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:36:33 GMT

I can see why it went out of fashion , who wants to imply or be implied to be dragon-like . Although very poetic ...............

Re: Fabulous terms

Dagmar Steele — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:20:17 GMT

the term originates from the roaring twenties when husbands tried to calm their raging wives with some flowers after a night out. It's also been used for a gift when visiting the mother-in-law, and for obvious reasons the preferred flowers are roses (all these thorns) ;-) it seems to me it's gone a bit out of fashion lately - time to revive it!

Re: Fabulous terms

Clive Ansell — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:08:49 GMT

hahahaha, I'm lucky, don't have a Dragon.

Also reminds me of this nonsense a few years ago, and this.

Re: Fabulous terms

Niall Taylor — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:06:30 GMT

... so not "Dragon Fodder" in the form of fair maidens being provided as a light snack then? That puts a bit of a different meaning on the phrase although I'd be careful about adopting the phrase in the way you have described it - if you are giving flowers to your wife, who is the dragon?

Niall