You can ‘sling your hook’ is it a reference to the Captain in Peter Pan?
No! Think it MIGHT be another old naval term, possibly to do with rigging your hammock?
I am standing by waiting be corrected.
So you're offering a definitive answer whilst suggesting it's probably wrong. Come on mate, you can't simultaneously retain your cake whilst eating it.
Right, I was close. Here's the 'definitive' term. The term sling your hook is polite way of telling someone to go away. This term has a nautical origin. Hook was a name given to the ship's anchor, and the sling was the cradle that housed the anchor. Therefore, to sling your hook meant to lift anchor, stow it and sail away.
Graham Norton was interviewing a writer on his radio show last week and she explained how ‘Driving me round the bend’ came from the curved driveways that used to lead up to old large Mental Hospitals/Asylums, to make the buildings seem less imposing.
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Right, I was close. Here's the 'definitive' term. The term sling your hook is polite way of telling someone to go away. This term has a nautical origin. Hook was a name given to the ship's anchor, and the sling was the cradle that housed the anchor. Therefore, to sling your hook meant to lift anchor, stow it and sail away.
Right, time to 'splice the main-brace' methinks.
Who what why?
I heard it in a new Zealand accent once. Came out as hivvins to bitsy.
It's no more clear though.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/sweet-fanny-adams.html
I have known this saying since i was kid in the 70's