I read these to my son a dozen years or so ago at bedtime. We're American, so the expressions used by the British in the 1940s would absolutely crack us up. "Yo

I read these to my son a dozen years or so ago at bedtime. We're American, so the expressions used by the British in the 1940s would absolutely crack us up. "Your mother's a brick, isn't she?" comes immediately to mind. Is that a good thing? It seemed like it was in context, but we had no idea. We'd laugh ourselves silly trying to figure some of them out.