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From: oscar@maths.tcd.ie (Owen Carter)
Subject: Re: Aspel distribution clarification
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 08:49:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Jun17.084953.19970@maths.tcd.ie>
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chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) writes:

>   The film was called "Blowing the Gaff" (one of the phrases used in
>the O.E.D. in the definition of the word "gaff".) This phrase seemed
>really obscure, but in the film "The Crying Game" the female IRA member
>(Miranda Richardson?) askes the lead if he "...blew the gaff."

I've never seen the film myself, but here "gaff" is
slang for home/house/flat/where you live.

So presumably "blowing the gaff" means leaving your house.

o

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