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"Let's be 'avin you" is much better known as a football rallying cry, isn't it? I'd never heard of it as a police thing. The most famous example of the phrase
by walthamstow 3y ago
"Let's be 'avin you" is much better known as a football rallying cry, isn't it? I'd never heard of it as a police thing.
The most famous example of the phrase I'm aware of is when Delia Smith, a septuagenarian TV cook, exhalted her home Norwich City fans with a drunken slurred voice at half time over the PA system.
- walthamstow 3y agoNot sure why I've been downvoted! Here's the video. Every football fan in England will connect the phrase with this event. It's not a bad thing, she's a national treasure. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NiC679ASOyA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NiC679ASOyA
- jimnotgym 3y agoI think you are downvoted for not quite being correct. I think "Let's be 'avin you" is by far better known as a police thing. This is what made the spectacle of a drunken Delia shouting it at a crowd all the more absurd.
- walthamstow 3y agoI was asking a question, so it's a little unfair for people to have downvoted me without answering my question. I think it must be an age thing? I've never heard of Dixon of Dock Green (born late 80s/early 90s). If I asked anyone I know how they connect that phrase, it'd be Delia. Anyway, thanks for engaging.
- jimnotgym 3y agoI was born early 80s I never saw Dixon either, but the phrase seems pretty common and well known. The downvote thing is annoying...it would be nicer if people just replied