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Old 12th Sep 2020, 19:17
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alfaman
 
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Originally Posted by capngrog
That's only part of the "old saying". The full saying is: "It's all fun and games until somebody gets knocked up, down or out". By way of explanation for our British Cousins, "knocked up" in Americanese, means impregnated.

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Grog
Yeah, means the same here - also, the original phrase goes back to Roman times apparently, "it's all fun & games until someone loses an eye", as eye gouging wasn't allowed, although pretty much everything else was...
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