Sunday, November 20, 2016

1459-Caller-Gabe-Put-Up-Your-Dukes by A Way with Words

Put up your dukes! means “Get ready to fight!” But its etymology is a bit uncertain. One story goes that it’s from Cockney rhyming slang, in which dukes is short for Dukes of York, a play on the slang term fork, meaning “hand. via Pocket http://ift.tt/2fvEdgp

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