2007-03-28 12:27:05 · 5 answers · asked by Goddess of Grammar 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
"knees-up" is still used in the Australian vernacular (mostly sarcastically) for a dance party.
2007-03-28 20:38:55 · answer #1 · answered by Sterz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knees Up Mother Earth is the seventh book by Robert Rankin in the Brentford Trilogy, as well as the second book in the The Witches of Chiswick Trilogy.
The plot centers on the efforts of Jim Pooley and John Omalley to save Brentford F.C.'s football ground from demolition as part of a satanic conspiracy to awake the serpent from the Garden of Eden. Many of the events in the book are based on a real campaign, in which Rankin himself was involved, to save the ground from being purchased by property developers.
2007-03-28 12:31:23 · answer #2 · answered by ♥!BabyDoLL!♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an old (Cockney, I believe) expression meaning 'party'. There's an old song called 'knees up mother Brown". The term has somewhat fallen into disuse.
2007-03-28 12:36:47 · answer #3 · answered by Chay D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
laughing so hard your knees draw up to your chest?
2007-03-28 12:35:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good joke.
2007-03-28 12:32:37 · answer #5 · answered by balderarrow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋