06.25.03
X-Beckham
The ever-nasty and ever-creative Pete Milligan:
I’d like to have him run around in a spandex superhero costume, become a homoerotic pin-up, get his nose busted in a fight with the Hulk and, as a result, have millions wiped off his “share price”.
Sharon Bakar said,
June 27, 2003 at 11:05 am
I was intrigued by this expression when i heard it on the BBC World news just now. Thanks for explaining it. I googled a bit and found that it has been around for a while and not just in parliamentary slang. Sometimes people just say “a horlicks”. One reason given for using this word to mean “a mess” is that when you make a cup of Horlicks, you are left with a whole lot of sticky gunk in the bottom of the cup.
I like your site very much, incidentally. The pursuit of word origins is a fascinating sport.