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As cold as a flugen

Posted by ESC January 08, 2010 at 14:05In reply to As cold as a flugen posted by Helen Crossland on January 07, 2010 at 19:48:

My grandmother, that would be well over 120 if still living, used to say, "It is cold as a flugen today" or "It is cold as flugens." I always wondered what a flugen was?

Believe it or not, that phrase has come up before. Flugens = hell, the dickens, tarnation. See the archives: www.phrases.org.uk bulletin_board 59 messages 223.html

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