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Mithalwen · 08-08-2011, 03:34 PM

There is the expression "do yourself a mischief" meaning injure or harm yourself.
Not all phrases are well documented. My mother used to call the little triangular patches of grass at a fork in a lane "god cakes". I tried to look it up and it took a while - I began to think it was a "motherism" but I then found there was a little triangular local pastry in her native Warwickshire called a god-cake ,,, but it took a bit of digging and even then the only refs so far are in a cookery blog and a Leaminton Parish magazine...

08-08-2011, 03:34 PM	#7
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	There is the expression "do yourself a mischief" meaning injure or harm yourself. Not all phrases are well documented. My mother used to call the little triangular patches of grass at a fork in a lane "god cakes". I tried to look it up and it took a while - I began to think it was a "motherism" but I then found there was a little triangular local pastry in her native Warwickshire called a god-cake ,,, but it took a bit of digging and even then the only refs so far are in a cookery blog and a Leaminton Parish magazine... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace