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A section for all you budding etymologists where each week the origin of a word or phrase is investigated.
There is another suggestion, that it was first rabbits
This week it is..... Go like the clappers
that ‘ran like the clappers’. This notion comes from
Go very fast; in a vigorous manner.
This term isn’t common outside of the United Kingdom, the French word for a rabbit hole - clapier, which
and is now considered rather archaic even there. It was adapted into English as clapper. Rabbit burrows,
originated around the time of WWII as RAF slang. The especially those that were constructed in order to
earliest citation I can find is from a 1942 newspaper breed semi-tame rabbits, (or conies, as they were then
piece by Associated News staff Writer Alfred Wall, in called) were called clappers. This was known in the 15th
century; for example, from the romantic poem Roman
which he listed various RAF slang terms:
“A pilot chased by the enemy ‘goes like the clappers’, de la Rose, 1405:
“Conies... That comen out of her claperes.”
or full out”.
What ‘the clappers’ refers to isn’t entirely clear, although The proposal has two significant flaws. Firstly, the phrase
by far the most likely derivation is as a reference to the and the meaning don’t match. Rabbit would have ‘run
clappers of bells. An early form of the phrase was ‘go like from the clappers’, not ‘run like the clappers’. Secondly,
the clappers of hell’ and, given that bells have clappers, the ‘rabbit-burrow’ meaning has long been archaic and
it may be that it may that the rhyme of hell and bell is unused. The most recent example of its conversational
significant. RAF pilots were often from English public use that can be found in print is from 1725, although
schools where the ringing of handbells to mark the time there are still some place names that derived from this
was common. Bells were rung more vigorously as the source - for example Sharpenhoe Clappers in the English
time remaining to get to class/chapel etc. was about to Chilterns.. The phrase originated in the RAF in the mid
run out. The image of schoolboys dashing to class while 20th century - long after clapper meant something else
handbells were being energetically rung matches the entirely.
meaning of the phrase very well.
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