Haywire
Posted by Rahul on January 25, 2004
In Reply to: Haywire posted by Dave Jacobs on January 25, 2004
: I was pointed to this website, so I thought I'd use it to discover the meaning of a phrase that seems to crop up more and more in my elderly life: 'Things are going haywire'.
: No explanation is forthcoming though, so anyone any idea? I'm pretty sure that farmers of old didn't use wire in the course of their haymaking, and why would it be a bad thing anyway?
: Cheers, Dave Jacobs