What Do I Do If I Get This Job?
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There is a vague suggestion - though personally I would treat it with a hefty dose of salt! - that it may be related to the days of Victorian child chimney-sweeps. The claim is that they were sometimes lowered head-first down chimneys in order to clean them, as well as having to climb up them. They often banged their heads whilst doing the former and so perhaps became a bit daft whilst being used as a brush.
I can't help feeling a known practice was just dragooned into offering an explanation of the phrase, however!
I can't help feeling a known practice was just dragooned into offering an explanation of the phrase, however!
Found an interesting (and completely different) suggestion here:
http://www.iol.ie/~tadhgs/nametadhg.htm
(4 paragraphs down)
http://www.iol.ie/~tadhgs/nametadhg.htm
(4 paragraphs down)
a collection of suggestion, none of them definitive, here
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