Showing posts with label Slow and aloft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slow and aloft. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Slow and aloft
The expression 'slow and aloft' appears in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - "Some's turned the chest out slow and aloft."
Slow, in this context, means bottom so this old expression was the equivalent of our modern 'top to bottom' - meaning throughout.
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