I've lived in north Kent all my life and although that's not an
expression I use I knew immediately what "anything to go to the snob"
meant as I read your message. A snob is a shoemaker's last. My Little
Oxford dictionary only gives the 'aspiring to social elevation'
definition of snob but it does include the shoemaker's model definition
of last
Brenda
On 2 Sep 2005, at 13:49, Malvary J Cole wrote:
A couple of regional expressions that spring to mind, from opposite
ends of the country - when I moved to west Kent (having grown up in
east Kent) I was asked one day if I had anything to go to the snob.
After querying this I discovered that it was the shoe menders. I
don't know how widespread the expression is used, but certainly I'd
never heard of it 70 or so miles to the east. I guess the explanation
is easy to understand, if you needed to take shoes to the menders,
then you weren't wearing wooden clogs, then you were well off, then
you were a "snob".
Brenda
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