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Praying at The Porcelain Altar
Praying at The Porcelain Altar
Praying at The Porcelain Altar : Phrases
Meaning:
Vomiting down the toilet.
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Origin:
This is one of the colourful phrases coined by, or at least popularized by, the Australian comedian Barry Humphries during the 1970s in his Barry McKenzie column in Private Eye.
Humphries is a master at such earthy language and has a reportoire of phrase for vomitting, coined or collected in his native Australia. He could hardly do better than study the works of a previous master collector - George Grose. In his 1788 version of A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, he lists 'Admiral of the Narrow Seas' as:
"One who drunkenly vomits into the lap of one who sits next to him."
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