Cell Phone vs Mobile Phone?

[DL13]

[quote="DMB2000uk"I'm not sure that was a typo or if that's another miss-heard phrase

Should be leg and not lag, i.e. "Did you get your leg up?" or "leg over"

Dan[/quote]
Typo and my wife would have knocked me over the head for screwing the phrase up.

[Major_A]

Yes it's a cell phone. But if I hear mobile I know what is being said.

[Sowser]

Through a bit of research it seems that the expression "knocked up" is American slang for getting a woman pregnant, derived from the slave trade, which has also become the pervasive meaning in England. Though in some parts of northern England and most of Ireland its meaning still refers to waking someone up or simply visiting them.

Knock up - This means to wake someone up. Although it seems to have an altogether different meaning in the USA! At one time, in England, a chap was employed to go round the streets to wake the workers up in time to get to work. He knew where everyone lived and tapped on the bedroom windows with a long stick, and was known as a "knocker up". He also turned off the gas street lights on his rounds. Another meaning of this phrase, that is more common these days, is to make something out of odds and ends. For example my Dad knocked up a tree house for us from some planks of wood he had in the garage, or you might knock up a meal from whatever you have hanging around in the fridge.

Here also is a link to uses of "knocked up" by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/453610

The woman who wrote the paper the link leads to must have overlooked the uses by Arthur Conan Doyal.

[DMB2000uk]

Just goes to show how much the english language evolves!

Dan