Glasgow as far as i can tell has at least TWO rhyming phrases to describe the condition among certain young man of being unwilling to 'sink the pink', as it were, due to fear: 'shy of the pie' and (my favourite) 'Scared of the baird'. is there any other culture ANYWHERE that has a similar phrase?
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 5 April 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)