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Where does the phrase "given the sack" come from?

Where does the phrase "given the sack" come from? Why "the sack"?

Easiest mobile phone

I'd like to get my mum who is 79 a mobile phone for Christmas and programme everyones number in for her and she could also take it upstairs with her. Mine is only a simple one but she seems to think...

feelap

Muslim Name.........

Since the name Muhammed/Mohammed is considered only for the propeht.........why are there so many people with that name? By naming your son that, isnt that considered blasphemous?

gloross

sat telegraph readers

help please with 7d 26d and 13a many thanks

Poizyn

A little help with something strange...??

I heard someone speaking about a speech made and the speaker said something like "the problem with the french is that they dont have a word for Entrepreneur". Can anyone tell me who...

jeanette1976

Word translation

How can i translate Mountain of knowledge into japanese?

jubbulpore 1

I heard this in India from a Royal signals squaddie cant trace it though

She's only one hair on her T---y The other one's under her arm She was milking a cow with a spanner Down on old Flannigans Farm. Would love to fine out about the remainder.

1rovert

Why save Huntley??????

I see on the BBC news that Ian Huntley is being treated in the prison hospital, for an overdose. WHY didn't they let the cruel pasterd die??????????????

looloo

dtgk 29/9

33a South American hunting missile made of two or more balls strung together B-L-S 42a Set of rules to be followed to solve problem especially in computer programming -L-O-I-H- Thanks in advance

london_lassy

Telegraph/GK

16 across please, Tack or sew with long, loose temporary stitches ?A?T?

frannie38

Occupations

This one uses a "tree frame" ( 7 letters). I know this has been asked before but I have never seen an answer. Please can anyone help.

MarzipanQ

Explanation of "stan" in countries

What does the stan bit mean as in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tjurkistan etc please?

wishy

anicas midden

A friend of mine from Glasgow often refers to a messy place as anicas midden (don't know about the spelling) nobody knows anything about it only it was a saying used by his grandmother

ziggy2

Sayings

Where did the saying come from or who was "Dick & Liddy"

lovejoy

Immigrants please explain

It took me 25 years of hard work to pay for my house and in the last few months there are africans and pakistanis living in my road that have paid nothing for their ?200,000 houses, they got them as a...

pa___ul

can anyone translate this please?

Lorem ipso ad horem ex post in dolor et quinque gloria patri et fili et spiritus est. Ad quorum sunt corpus ad beneditus fructus gratia plena dominus tecum et mulieribus. In nimina patri illegitimus...

swiss2302

DTGK Crossword 4.8

Can somebody please help me with the fiollowing two.45A . A Sovereign Prince of the former ruling house of Austria. 9D Taki's long running column in The Spectator. Many thanks

woofas

How it Works

I bought a Panama hat on a visit to Equador some years ago. It has got a little grubby and sweat stained and I would like to clean it. Any idea how?

cshelmo

Maths help...

A retailer spent $48 to purchase a number of special mugs. Two of them were broken in the store, but by selling each of the remaining mugs for $3 above the original cost per mug, she made a total...

sincnoel

dtgk

A tad too easy today, I thought. I started at 0815 and had it in the mailbox at 0935. (And I'm not the Brain of Britain!)

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