Is there a phrase or quote you want me to investigate? (How’s about that ‘lips broke away … with a resounding plonk’! What is a plonk sound? How do lips parting, go plonk? Hmm). “You’re getting my knickers in a knot!”Īnd that my friends, is an appropriate usage of the term ‘knickers in a knot’ don’t you think? 😉😂 “Oh do stop it,” she gasped as their lips broke away from each other with a resounding plonk.
The term ‘knickers’ itself is a British one, and the phrase is primarily reserved for women and their lower apparel…Īlthough the first recorded literary mention seems to come from Wilbur Smith’s The Train from Katanga (1965) I have to quote the 1968 novel by Frank Norman, titled Barney Snip – Artist: There doesn’t appear to be a real definitive origin of the phrase, other than to say that the term “don’t get your knickers in a twist” appears to have come from Britain in the 70s, only to have moved along to the U.S and Australia and become their version of “don’t get your knickers in a knot.”
The above phrase is also commonly referred to as –Ĭollectively they all mean the same thing…
