Re: Pop! Goes the Weasel
Posted by Matthew Wright on October 20, 2002 at 08:15:09:
In Reply to: Re: Pop! Goes the Weasel posted by Jane McCredie on June 12, 2002 at 03:49:04:
The City Road is a prominent street that runs through the east end in London. Traditionally, the street was famous for its numerous tailors shops. When times were hard, the tailor's money would just about be enough to put 'rice' and 'treacle' on his table, then there would be none left.
'Popping' was the term meaning to pawn, and 'weasels' were the flat irons the tailors used. Once the City road tailor had pawned his weasel, he could go for a drink in the well known City Road pub, The Eagle!
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