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#1: Gamps Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:35 am
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Can anyone translate "gamps" in

Quote:

‘Get out the gamps! Jill’s looking for trouble!’ ?

It's from Gerry Goes to School.

#2: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:49 am
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According to google it's a slang term for umbrellas - don't know if that fits the scenario. Laughing

#3: Author: Karry, Location: Stoke on Trent

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:37 am
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Quote:

A monthly nurse, famous for her bulky umbrella and perpetual reference to Mrs. Harris, a purely imaginary person, whose opinions always confirmed her own. (Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit.)

though why they should get the umbrellas out , unless to use as weapons to protect themselves?!

#4: Author: Sarah_G-G, Location: Sheffield (termtime), ? any other time!

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:12 am
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Saying Jill's temper will be stormy perhaps..? She's like a young thunderstorm when properly aroused? (that sounds like an EBD-ish thing to say!). It's a bit of a tenuous link , I admit!

#5: Author: Róisín, Location: Ireland

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:43 am
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Maybe it means get them out to hide behind?

#6: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:42 pm
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Thanks! Sarah might have it. Jill's eyes do "flash stormily" during the midnight attack. I wonder if it was a popular catch-phrase at some point....

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