meaning and origin of ‘strawberry preacher’

22nd Jun 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

meaning and origin of the phrase ‘strawberry preacher’

‘in Dicky’s meadow’: meaning and origin

22nd Jun 2016.Reading time 20 minutes.

In the phrase ‘in Dicky’s meadow’, which means ‘in trouble’, the first element is an alteration of ‘dicky’, meaning ‘hazardous’, ‘critical’.

21st Jun 2016.Reading time 14 minutes.

In ‘Indian summer’, ‘Indian’ merely denotes something other than that denoted in Europe by the simple noun ‘summer’—as in ‘Indian corn’ (‘maize’).