Where did the phrase, saying "on your Todd" come from?

Answer 1

It's Cockney Rhyming Slang - Tod Sloane = Alone

Tod Sloane was a Jockey

Answer 2

The tod here is an American. He was born in 1874; his real name was James Forman Sloan, but later let it be known that his middle name was Todhunter and so is remembered as Tod Sloan. He was an inventive and highly successful jockey who pioneered what was called the “monkey ride” or “perching on the animal’s ears”: riding with short stirrups, lying low with his head almost on the horse’s neck. He was a colourful and difficult man, who made and squandered vast sums of money. In 1896 he crossed the Atlantic to Britain to become a rider for the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VII.

He fell disastrously from fame in 1901 when the Jockey Club, which controls British racing, denied him a licence because of some unspecified “conduct prejudicial to the best interests of the sport” (a newspaper report in 1903 said it was because its upper-class members found his arrogance and impertinence too offensive to put up with) and he then lost his American and French licences.

A writer in the Washington Post in 1903 described his state: “All of the flashy togs of his marvelous days as a race rider are gone. He doesn’t wear any jewelry any more. I can remember when he had almost a whole floor of one of the finest hotels in New York. Not now. He hasn’t got any ‘man’ any more to lay his clothes out, because he is minus the clothes. ... His Panhard and Mercedes touring autos are all gone — everything of Tod’s is gone.”

He died alone in poverty in Los Angeles of cirrhosis of the liver in 1933 — though he was well enough remembered for his death to be widely reported — and it was about this time that the rhyming slang to be on your Tod Sloan first appeared. Like many such phrases it became shortened and so, though the short form on your tod is still common British English, hardly anybody remembers the American jockey who inspired it.

Answer 3

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Say Uncle The OED2 includes a cite from American Speech in 1976 where the origin is traced to the Irish anacol, meaning an act of mercy or quarter. So, to say uncle appears to be a folk etymology that arose in North America from Irish immigrants. The phrase is pretty much unknown in the UK and Ireland.

Answer 4

Interesting! Never heard of the rhyming slang claim before. On your Jack, yes - Jack Jones = own.
Up north, Tod is the fox - foxes hunt and live solitarily, which is why someone "on their tod" is off on business alone - like a fox.
Cheers, Steve.
(note: only one d in "on your tod", if it is Todd Sloane why isn't it two d's?)

Answer 5

Tod Sloan

Answer 6

Jonny Todd is an old Liverpool shanty/song. It recalls the tale of a Liverpool sailor who sailed the ocean wide and left his true love waiting. When he came home he found someone had moved in on his girl. thus leaving him alone, thus on yer todd

Answer 7

Cockney rhyming slang...Todd Sloan - on your own.

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Answer 9

You might answer a person who asks you to go to a movie with them; "Nah. I'm not going. Feeling poorly. You go on your tod though. . "

Todd Sloane.

Answer 10

On Your Tod