What exactly is a big girls blouse?

[Joey Shabadoo]

You would never start a fight behind the bike sheds at school with the opening gambit of "You big girls blouse"

Funny you should say that. A teacher at my school challenged me to a fight behind the sports hall. I laughed at him and walked away which is when he called me a big girl's blouse. I'd never heard the term (well I suppose I was being educated as he was an English teacher) but by the context got the meaning right enough. The Deputy Rector luckily intervened when the pair of us were forehead to forehead ready to get started in the corridor.

 

[Blue Hills]

Funny you should say that. A teacher at my school challenged me to a fight behind the sports hall. I laughed at him and walked away which is when he called me a big girl's blouse. I'd never heard the term (well I suppose I was being educated as he was an English teacher) but by the context got the meaning right enough. The Deputy Rector luckily intervened when the pair of us were forehead to forehead ready to get started in the corridor.

cripes - what sort of school was that?
Reminds me of a good mate of mine and his philosophy teacher at university.
My mate was always argumentative and at one point in a seminar the philosophy teacher apparently said to him:
"come outside and say that".

(I never trust anyone with an enthusiasm for philosophy)

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

cripes - what sort of school was that?
Reminds me of a good mate of mine and his philosophy teacher at university.
My mate was always argumentative and at one point in a seminar the philosophy teacher apparently said to him:
"come outside and say that".

(I never trust anyone with an enthusiasm for philosophy)

I never thought of it as rough at the time but apparently it had a certain reputation. We were just kids and assumed it was normal.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Is it a blouse the belongs to a big girl or a girl's blouse that happens to be big?
And why is being compared to an innocuous item of clothing offensive?

Well, this is why you need punctuation.
If it was a big, girl's blouse, then it would be the blouse that was big.
The absence of the comma leads me to think it was the girl that was big.
It could be the blouse was actually rather tight fitting. I hope so.

 

[mudsticks]

If the blouse is tight fitting, then it will need to be of fairly resilient construction to withstand the strain of being so well filled, from within.

Ergo 'The big girls' 'blouse' is actually quite a tough thing.

You chaps have been getting all offended, all this time, for nothing

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

'tis a foolish young filly who puts her faith in blouses to hold in place that which needs held in place. That is the task of properly constructed foundation garments. Resilient to unwanted force from without and within, it is foundation garments that separate the floosies from the more refined, genteel classes.

 

[mudsticks]

'tis a foolish young filly who puts her faith in blouses to hold in place that which needs held in place. That is the task of properly constructed foundation garments. Resilient to unwanted force from without and within, it is foundation garments that separate the floosies from the more refined, genteel classes.

Quite the expert there Mr Shabadoo

Speaking from experience??

From mine own, it's dependent on circs and activity engaged upon.

'Foundation garments' can be unpleasantly hot and restrictive sometimes.


And some highly dubious, moral judgements, regarding character, and clothing being passed there.

- not like you - Shirley??