27 Oct
2002
27 Oct
'02
11:10 a.m.
Doc Shipley wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Philip Pemberton wrote:
OK, I've read/heard that expression before, and
I'm curious about it.
Where did "half inch" come from? Does it refer to any specific mode of
aquisition, like Human Engineering as opposed to rifling the desk?
Please, do tell.
My explanation, subject to correction, would be cockney rhyming slang :
half-inched = pinched = stolen
What I have never seen an explanation of is whether there is any
rational behind the rhymes used.
-- hbp