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Sailor's Xs

Posted by R. Berg on December 07, 2002

In Reply to: A Sailor's Moon posted by Laurie on December 07, 2002

: I was wondering if there was any special meaning to the phrase "A Sailor's Moon"? I saw it in a poem and couldn't discern it's meaning. Thx.

: Laurie

Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English has these:

sailor's blessing = a curse
sailor's champagne = beer
sailor's farewell = a parting curse
sailor's friend = the moon
sailor's weather = "a fair wind and just enough of it"

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