The
RAF is renowned for spawning a multitude of its own slang sayings.
The
phrase 'not a sausage' – meaning -' nothing at all' supposedly
derives (or so www.urbandictionary would have us believe) from
cockney rhyming slang – 'sausage and mash' : cash. To my mind this
doesn't sound quite right. I much prefer the version presented to me
by one of my glass clients last week.
Sally's
mother was a wartime WAAF whose explanation for the phrase 'not a
sausage' stemmed from interpreting a radar screen display. If a
contact appeared on her screen it would be a sausage shaped image -
no contact – no sausage.
So
- 'what can you see?' - 'can't see a sausage sir!'
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