The Old Bailey On-line

[Tony McCoy O'Grady]

On Dé Luain, Iúil 14, 2003, at 02:46 Europe/Dublin, Alice Faber wrote:

> Tony McCoy O'Grady wrote:
>> On Dé Luain, Iúil 14, 2003, at 00:19 Europe/Dublin, Sam Clements
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Barry's gonna be in heaven.  Although I doubt that they had a lot of
>>> food
>>> cites in jail.
>
> Well, there's "porridge" for a start.

> Don't you mean gruel?

Not quite, but almost, I meant 'porridge', check out...

"Do porridge, To. A slang expression for serving time in prison. It
probably alludes punningly to the earlier slang term 'stir', perhaps
with implied reference to prison fare."
(Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Millennium Edition.)

Tony McCoy O'Grady / apronymist
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