Felix (my lollipop)*

..I'll give him a fourpenny one.

I'm clearly having an (unintentional) run on old family phrases.

Even as a child, I didn't understand that a 'fourpenny one' was what might euphemistically be described as 'getting your defence in first'!

The 'give him a fourpenny one' phrase was regular advice from my Grandad.
A School of Hard Knocks man!

Fortunately I've always been a coward peace-lover.

*If he licks :-)

P.S. Thank you for the kind responses to yesterday's foray into blipchat regarding publishing journals. Apparently, it's been mooted before. But not since blipcards. :-)