Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Accy cyclist]

Why are many calling folk they have taken a dislike to 'you sausage' these days? I keep hearing 'you sausage' in a derogatory form. If someone called me a sausage I'd wonder what is/was the intended insult.🤔

 

[Dave7]

Why are many calling folk they have taken a dislike to 'you sausage' these days? I keep hearing 'you sausage' in a derogatory form. If someone called me a sausage I'd wonder what is/was the intended insult.🤔

I have always thought it was a term of endearment as in "you are a silly sausage".
Mind you I don't know what your locally made sausages are like.
NB. I get mine from a local artisan surveyor of all things meat...... its called Aldi

 

[mustang1]

From Mirriam-Webster:
Clean and cleanse both mean "to free something of dirt or impurities." Clean is used more generally to address everything from washing to tidying up. Cleanse is used more specifically to address removing dirt or germs, especially via washing, and is also used figuratively as seen in "cleanse the body/mind."

I will clean the Boeing 747, but I will cleanse the engine (coz that's specific).

Or I will clean the fleet of 747s but will cleanse one of the 747s (because now that's specific).

(Shrugs).

Still sounds odd to me but I'm being difficult, I know what you (and the dictionary mean). I get hung up over the use of language every so often and then have a little rant about it.