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Re: mixed up proverbs

• DodgyPutter 4,690 Posts

  Tue, May 7 2019 2:18 AM

  The last one is a bit early for Napoleon, possibly Hastings.

  Trafalgar Square is probably not the best place for a sea battle, although there is a fountain, and was probably erected to commemorate the battle.

  It doesn't rhyme.

  apart from that.........  ;-)

• gonfission 2,229 Posts

  Tue, May 7 2019 3:12 AM

  "Two in the bush" equals a threesome......

  If there is a stairway to Heaven, and a highway to hell, expect long delays in purgatory...

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Tue, May 7 2019 4:16 AM

  alosso:

  ten - sixty-six - the battle on Trafalgar Square (1066 A.C.)

  You sure about the year, i was there only more recent.......not so much a battle though ;-)

• alosso 21,032 Posts

  Tue, May 7 2019 4:38 AM

  DodgyPutter:

  It doesn't rhyme.

  This!

  Apart from that, all of the above. 1066 was the battle of Hastings - "William the Conquerer"

  On Trafalgar Square, there are at least two fountains plus Nelson's column (51 m), commemorating Admiral Lord Nelson, the deadly wounded victor of the 1805 sea battle near Portugal.

  We used the mnemonics in school. The last one originates from English class - therefore not in German ;) And then, someone introduced Trafalgar Square...

• DodgyPutter 4,690 Posts

  Tue, May 7 2019 6:35 AM

  bubbsboy:

  You sure about the year, i was there only more recent.......not so much a battle though ;-)

  It had been teken over long before then though :-)

  

  

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Tue, May 7 2019 6:47 AM

  ;-)