Don't Give Me Any of That Flannel Minicast - 5 Aug. 2009

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🗓️ 5 August 2009

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The English language has no shortage of words that mean nonsensical talk, including one that's piqued a listener's curiosity: How did flannel come to mean 'empty chatter' or 'hot air,' as in 'Don't give me any of that flannel!'? -- Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Site: http://waywordradio.org. Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.4	Baldur Dash, Piffel, Flemmery, Twaddle, Tommy Rot, Poppycock Clap Trap,
0:57.4	One thing you can say about English, we have plenty of words for nonsense.
1:01.8	Recently though, a listener named Richard called us to say he was
1:05.4	caught up short by a similar word. Here's my question. I love movies and I happen to
1:11.0	go back to listen to go watch the original of a movie called
1:14.2	get Carter with Michael Kane was a British movie wonderful flick
1:18.8	but in it he's giving a woman some story and she says don't hand me any of that flannel and I've even got
1:26.8	subtitles on the movie so I know that's what he really said and that was the
1:30.8	expression flannel and I looked it up and I'm trying to figure out where it came from and if you've ever heard of that.
1:37.0	Uh-huh, so he wasn't handing her a blanket or anything.
1:40.0	No, he was not. He was actually handing her a load of horse hay, but that's okay.
1:44.0	And this movie is from, this is the 1971 version of it, not the one that was done in 2000?
1:49.0	Correct, this is the 1971, and yes yes it was a British movie
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