Fanny Adams

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Fanny Adams

obsolete A ration of tinned mutton, as provided upon a naval ship. This macabre sobriquet was taken from the name of an eight-year-old girl who was brutally murdered in 1867, thus likening the quality of the meat rations to the remains of the young girl. I swear if I have to eat Fanny Adams one more time, I will throw myself overboard.
See also: Adam, fanny
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • laced mutton
  • be mutton dressed as lamb
  • have (one's) share of (something)
  • a handle to (one's) name
  • handle to one's name
  • you said it
  • you said it!
  • girl
  • the girls
  • scrag
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Nor do I want to trawl through pages full of folk who mean less than sweet Fanny Adams to me.
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