They were able to get away with innuendo that would have been unheard of a mere ten years before — in one episode, Sandy refers to Julian and his skill at the piano as: " a miracle of dexterity at the cottage upright "; innocuous in itself, unless one knows that a ' cottage ' was the polari term for a public toilet where men met for anonymous sexual encounters and ' upright ' referred to an erection.

The term " shepherd's pie " did not appear until 1877, and since then it has been used synonymously with " cottage pie ", regardless of whether the principal ingredient was beef or mutton.

The term " cottage cheese " is believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually made in cottages from any milk left over after making butter.

Cottaging is a British gay slang term referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory ( a " cottage ", " tea-room " or " beat "), or cruising for sexual partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere.

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Food fad is a term originally used to describe simple, catchy diets that often focused on a single element such as cabbage, grapefruit or cottage cheese.

In the first year of Rowland's third term ( 2003 ), rumors began circulating that contractors doing business with the state paid for and made improvements to his weekend cottage, that he benefited improperly from the sale of a condominium in Washington, D. C. at an inflated price, that he took gifts from subordinates in state government, and that he took partial ownership in businesses immediately before they were granted state contracts.

A deaf-and-dumb young man lived in the cottage in earlier times, hence the acquired name " Dummy Cottage ," an unacceptable term today.

The term " watering can " first appeared in 1692, in the diary of keen cottage gardner Lord Timothy George of Cornwall.

In popular modern culture the term cottage is used in a more general and romantic context and can date from any era but the term is usually applied to pre-modern dwellings.

The term cottage has also been used for a largish house that is practical rather than pretentious, see Chawton Cottage.

* A term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to describe a cottage

The term " log cabin " is not preferred by most contemporary builders, as it generally refers to a smaller, more rustic log house such as a hunting cabin in the woods, or a summer cottage.

Auden lived at the school in a cottage that he named " Lawrence Villa " ( one of his allusions to D. H. Lawrence ); during the summer term he took his bed out to the lawn ; thus the opening line of his poem " Out on the lawn I lie in bed ".

" Bothy " may be a corruption of the Gaelic bothan, meaning small hut, or possibly the Welsh term bwthyn, also meaning small cottage.

The term gîte nowadays encompasses most forms of holiday cottage and even holiday flats or apartments.

In the early 20th century the term " cottage garden " might be applied even to as large and sophisticated a garden as Hidcote Manor, which Vita Sackville-West described as " a cottage garden on the most glorified scale " but where the colour harmonies were carefully contrived and controlled, as in the famous " Red Borders ".

In modern times, the term ' cottage garden ' is used to describe any number of informal garden styles, using design and plants very different from their traditional English cottage garden origins.

The Fencible soldiers were generally offered free passage to New Zealand and for many, a two-roomed cottage and an acre of land, in return for a seven year term of service.

In June 1957, Wham-O co-founder Richard Knerr decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee ( pronounced " friz '- bee "), after learning that Connecticut college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term " Frisbee " coming from the name of the Bridgeport, CT pie manufacturer Frisbie Pie Company.

This common use has led to the slang term for rhubarb, " pie plant ", by which name it was more commonly known in the United States in the late 19th century.

* In the Philippines, the term for omelette is torta-not to be confused with the Mexican torta ( sandwich ), Italian torta ( pie ) or the Spanish torta ( cake ).

The term " pasty " is an English word for a pie, filled with venison or other meat, vegetables or cheese, baked without a dish.

More recently, the term " shepherd's pie " has been used when the meat is lamb, the theory being that shepherds are concerned with sheep and not cattle.

The term was coined by The Specials ' keyboardist Jerry Dammers, who — with the assistance of Horace Panter and graphic designer John " Teflon " Sims — created the iconic Walt Jabsco logo ( a man in a black suit, white shirt, black tie, pork pie hat, white socks and black loafers ) to represent the 2 Tone genre.

In most European countries, such as Austria, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, etc., the term café implies primarily serving coffee, typically accompanied by a slice of cake / tart / pie, a " Danish pastry ", a bun, or similar sweet pastry.

Pork pie or Porkie pie, often shortened to porkie, is the Cockney rhyming slang term for lie.

The categories of ' tart ', ' flan ', and ' pie ' overlap, with no sharp distinctions, though ' pie ' is the more common term in the United States.

However, in fact, Arnold was never quoted at the time using the term " flying boomerangs ", instead describing the shape as like a saucer or disc or pie pan, and also drew a picture for Army Air Intelligence of an irregular flat rounded object with a trailing point.

It may also be known as a shell pie or a mince pie ( although the latter term is ambiguous ) to differentiate it from other varieties of savoury pie, such as the steak pie, steak and kidney pie, steak-and-tattie ( potato ) pie, and so forth.

A pot pie is a term for a type of baked savory pie with a bottom and top completely encased by flaky crusts and baked inside a pie tin to support its shape.

Humble pie, or umble pie, is also a term for a variety of pastries based on medieval meat pies.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.