HELP! answers on a postcard please
2006-08-07 03:19:01 · 4 answers · asked by greg h 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
In the days before mobile phones and computers took over our lives, an old but widely admired Fleet Street hack - who spent as much time propping up the bars in El Vino’s and the Wig & Pen as he did at his typewriter - used to delight in telling brash newcomers that “Today’s scoop is tomorrow’s wrapper for a helping of fish and chips”. Though cynical, his words were nevertheless a salutary pointer to the transience of much of what passes for news.
So. obviously, an English idiom
2006-08-07 03:26:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Cod and halibut the two sound sturdy....i'm uncertain if i could rather have a call! i think of while it contains fish and chips, I definitely have had cod extra many times, inspite of the incontrovertible fact that. i think of cod, haddock and plaice (this is a flatfish) are all obtainable in the "fish and chips" places I definitely have been to in the united kingdom.
2016-11-04 01:34:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a postcard, sorry.
I have heard Julia Roberts say this but she was
quoting her dad.
I'm sure he got it from somewhere else too!
2006-08-07 03:22:47 · answer #3 · answered by Kiki Joy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dunno but very true. x
2006-08-07 03:22:19 · answer #4 · answered by vicky l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋