Dim as a Toc-h Lamp

Posted by James Briggs December 18, 2003In reply to Dim as a Toc-h Lamp posted by Graham Roach on December 18, 2003

any ideas to the this means....???

TocH was a charity, similar to the Salvation Army. It set up various troop facilities in WW1. If these were near the front line, then the outside lamp was very dim for safety reasons. Hence the saying.

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