What exactly is a big girls blouse?

[Chris S]

Is it a blouse the belongs to a big girl or a girl's blouse that happens to be big?
And why is being compared to an innocuous item of clothing offensive?

 

[Venod]

or a girl's blouse that happens to be big

That would be a girls big blouse, so I would say its a blouse that belongs to a big girl, don't know why its offensive though, could be a term of endearment.

 

[MontyVeda]

Not been called one since the 70s.

 

[Drago]

One of these, it would seem.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Posting something like this on here could cause some of our sensitive members to explode...


Best change the title quick.. Something like where can i buy a size 26 blouse..

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm familiar with the term, though it seems that its no longer used very often, where its use as an insult came from I don't know, I suspect thats lost in the mists of time, I always understood it to mean someone who the person using the insult thought was generally useless.

 

[Cycleops]

One of these, it would seem.

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I hope that's not reference to the illustrious leader of HMs opposition. If it is that's outrageous!

 

[numbnuts]

I suppose it's a bit like “pants”

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A cowardly wimpy man is what a big girls blouse is. Basically it was an insult you threw at your mates when you dared them to do something but they wouldn't.

Origins link back to big girls blouses back in the 60s basically appearing like a billowing tent and ineffectual. Nowadays big girls blouses are much better fitting, or at least so @Drago tells me.

 

[Drago]

That's not just a reference. That is a picture of him!

In the interests of fairness and balance, here is a picture of the PM, the RT.Hon. Boris Johnson.

 

[classic33]

"If you call a man a big girl's blouse, you mean they are not brave or confident and do not behave in the way that a man should. Come on, jump, you big girl's blouse!"

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+big+girl's+blouse

 

[raleighnut]

Another example of Bojo's misogyny

 

[Drago]

Boris needs to watch it. After all, Corbyn has friends in Hamas.

 

[AuroraSaab]

In Yorkshire it was always used as a kind of affectionate put down. The kind of thing you'd say to someone who wouldn't catch a spider.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Boris needs to watch it. After all, Corbyn has friends in Hamas.

I've been to that toy shop as well.