Flower Friday…

Mill Street Community Cafe provided my flower blip for Flower Friday this week but their chef did point out that it’s also Fish Friday in the cafe. I wonder what their catch of the day is. Last week it was whiting which was yummy;-))

My saying today is ‘two shakes of a lambs tail’.
The phrase "two shakes of a lamb's tail" originated from the observation that lambs shake their tails very quickly, especially when nursing. The phrase, meaning "very quickly" or "in a very short time," first appeared in Richard Harris Barham's "Ingoldsby Legends" in 1840. It's likely the phrase existed in vernacular usage even before its publication. The expression has also been shortened to "two shakes".

One of its iterations was “two shakes of a dead lamb's tale” — surely the exact opposite.

Interestingly, the term "shake" (equal to 10 nanoseconds) was adopted as a unit of time during the Manhattan Project, likely influenced by the idiom, according to Sky Fish Knits.