Daniel_

In my family it was always "there and back to see how far it is".

Re-reading the great responses on here also reminds me that a good friend of my Mother, when asked "what's for dinner", would say "Mr Asquith"; she meant "wait and see". I have no idea why the evocation of former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith meant that, but for her it did.

Another thing she used to say (when asked "what's for dessert") would be "those that ask don't get, and those that don't ask don't want". Another cliché of her household was that if you wanted a snack she'd say that there was "fruit or yoghurt", to the point that in my family if nobody was sure what to have for a snack, someone would say "we've got some fruitoryogit if you want that".

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