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Sun 24 Aug, 2003 03:42 pm
can anybody tell me the origin of the saying 'a night on the tiles'?
thanks
Hi profhig and welcome to a2k. Sorry I can't help with your question. I have a feeling you'll get an answer tomorrow. (Some folks don't show up on the weekends.)
It's from cats having their parties on the rooftops.
Craven de Kere wrote:It's from cats having their parties on the rooftops.
... as said in "British English A to Zed" by Norman W. Schur.
Roberta wrote: (Some folks don't show up on the weekends.)
Some folks are in bed at that time :wink:
Positive confirmation Walter. I found it in a collection of etymology that a Brazilian made.
In Australia we have many corrugated iron rooves.
Perhaps we ought to have a night on the sheets?
You would be thinking of a night on the sheets, Deb.
Leave weird markings on your bavk, or front, those sheets would, MA.
Probly leave markings on the sheets as well, no?
Rooves? Hooves, yes, but for some reason (in America, where we speak American, anyhow) it's roofs...
Sorry, Wy. I teach English at the high school level in the US. I try to impress on my students that. while 'roofs' is acceptable, 'rooves' is preferable.
When the sweet pussycatten maken lerve on the rooves,
It's the he pussygattos that make all the right mooves,
That shall have all the sweet catta lervin' that prooves,
That a night on the tiles is a night full of looooooves!
That's beautiful bunny....I think I feel a bit teary-eyed....
As I once said to Craven - teary EYED??!!!
I think you're all on a tear.
tear 'em up, babeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Deb's cattin' around again.
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