how's your father

how's your father

euphemism Sexual intercourse or activity. Usually preceded by "a bit of" or "a spot of." Jeremy snuck under the bleachers with his girlfriend to have a spot of how's your father, but ended up getting caught by the headmaster. It's well known that having kids is going to drastically reduce the how's your father in your relationship, but it's something many couples still struggle with.
See also: father
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

how's your father

sexual intercourse. British informal
A pre-World War I music-hall catchphrase, how's your father was earlier used to mean ‘nonsense’ before acquiring its present sexual sense. It is now used also to refer to a man's penis.
See also: father
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a spot of how's your father
  • sore spot
  • father
  • be in a spot of bother
  • hot spot
  • a hot spot
  • change/swap places
  • change places
  • a tough spot
  • change places with (one)
References in classic literature
"Why, Master Tom, how's your father this morning?" It was a publican of St.
These are contestants who, rather than looking for love, are looking for a z-list celebrity career, a free holiday in the sun, a bit of how's your father and a possible pay day in a cheap reality television show.
After admitting he didn't even know who Arg was, Piers started digging for the truth and accused 'naughty' Arg of visiting Gemma for a bit of 'how's your father'.
CONAL GALLEN - HOW'S YOUR FATHER Date: 29th Sept Time: 8.00pm Venue: Riverside theatre, Coleraine Father and son team, Conal and Rory Gallen have written probably their funniest comedy play to date.
But, in case you missed it - lucky you, by the way - it saw an assortment of couples marshalled into a large perspex cube two by two for a bit of televised 'how's your father'.
Double Maxim, How's Your Father, and Sunderland Draught Bitter were brands of which former brewery?
2 HOW'S YOUR FATHER? CHARLIE Chaplin was a lot older when he was faced with dirty nappies.
Another said: "Aye, if he actually gets that you're waiting on a wee bit of how's your father. My man's so lazy he cannae even pick up a signal."
The tagline, "How's your father?" is an effort to use Father's Day to publicise the risk of prostate cancer.
'Had you been trying have a bit of how's your father with them, eh?' 'I'd never seen them before in me life,' Dean touched a bloody ear and felt his ribs, and the police had him taken to hospital, and Owen noted down the strange graffiti in his notebook.
Finally you work up the courage to say, "Eh-hem, don't you know, how's your father? Is it, um, upstairs?" "Oh you want the loo," says the host.
Thirty-five years I said, too little too late he repliedC* I retire this yearC* How's your father, heAaaskedC*Aahow old is he nowC* nearly 80 I respondedC* how time fliesC* 35 yearsC*
He told a pal there had been a bit of "how's your father" with his ex and said: "She looks stunning.
Rosemary plays one of the leading parts as Doreen Croppeer, Eddie's wife in How's Your Father (this week's episode is "From Here To Infirmity," ATV 8.0)
They told me about all the lovely birds and the changing habitat, then dropped in about several hundred toads who'll make their annual trip to a couple of ditches for a bit of 'how's your father'.