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Where do the sayings 'Sling your hook' and to hate someones guts come from?
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[1] Sling: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sli1.htm
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reckon it's either nautical, sailors putting hammocks up, by slinging between two hooks [as get below decks & out of sight. Or Dockers, when they finished/left a job would hang up their hoks for shifting sacks etc.
[2]: Guts: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hav1.htm
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