the phrase ‘you can hear the neighbours change their minds’
UK, 1909—used when the dividing walls between adjacent houses or flats are thin—also used of the passage of sound between floors
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UK, 1909—used when the dividing walls between adjacent houses or flats are thin—also used of the passage of sound between floors
Read Morelate 16th century—from early modern Dutch ‘maelstrom’ (now ‘maalstroom’)—originally a proper name designating a powerful whirlpool in the Arctic Ocean, off the west coast of Norway, which was formerly supposed to suck in and destroy all vessels within a wide radius
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