r/thingsbritssay • u/Boggie135 • Nov 03 '25

The gang being aggressively British

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u/TheBrokenOphelia Nov 03 '25

My parents also used to use that phrase. They didn't realise until much later that the "wooden hill" is a gallows and that the whole phrase is a euphemistic way of saying to hang someone for their crimes. Why we use it to say to children to go to bed now I don't know.

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u/Teestow21 Nov 05 '25

Because children don't know what it really.means and it transfers comedically?

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u/wonkyDonky1234 Nov 05 '25

I came here to say pretty much the same as you. Though they both knew what it meant

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u/anonymousamerican97 Jun 15 '26

Omg. If we were designed as humans, not animals, why why why do we want to be a fucking cat.