Being a Matilda

[l_h_kings]

What is the meaning of this saying? Does it describe someone who is being awkward, or is it similar to the boy who cried Wolf?

And any idea of the origin Please?

Any relation to the northern "Tilly Trot"?

Thank you.

[jno]

there's a poem called Matilda by Hilaire Belloc - here - and it's similar in outline to the story of the boy who cried wolf. I don't know if the phrase carries the other connotations you mention, though.

[Quizmonster]

Click here for my - and others' - replies to your own earlier question about Tilly Trot. 'Tilly' is an abbreviation of 'Matilda', but I must confess I have never heard anyone being called 'a Matilda'.
Certainly the word 'matilda' is Australian slang for a traveller's bundle or baggage...hence their song about 'Waltzing Matilda'...so I suppose a matilda could be a baggage, though that is rather an old-fashioned word for a lady who is a bit of a tart!