Iliff-King phrasebook

Example

What a lovely display of cock-a-leg

Origin

From a Leslie Thomas book, almost certainly The Love Beach. In that context it applied to Scottish ex-pats¹ in the sweltering tropics who had paid no attention to their native culture until moving abroad

Collector

Mark – 1968
Mark Iliff – owner

Notes

Used with affection, rather than Thomas’s disdain.

¹Ex-pat meaning immigrant, of course