I'll go to the foot of our stairs
Posted by Jim Davidson on September 11, 2007
I see among the meanings that nothing is included about the origin of "I'll go to the foot of our stairs."
I remember in my boyhood in the 1940s hearing that phrase first on the radio (wireless)in a comedy of some kind and the audience gave a bit of a gasp as it was said with a slight pause between "to" and "the foot" and it appeared as if the speaker was going to say " Well, I'll go to ... hell!" which in those days would have been shocking.
Nowadays anything goes, but I think that particular phrase originated in the music halls as I've described above. Does anyone else agree, or disagree?