Believe it or not, my older sister thought, until it came up in a conversation a few years back, the the expression was “keyhole” rather than “keel-haul”. I guess she did not pay as much attention as I did at the movies when we were kids. I love giving her a hard time about this, but I have to admit that being key-holed sounds rather painful as well.
“Believe it or not, my older sister thought, until it came up in a conversation a few years back, the the expression was “keyhole” rather than “keel-haul”.”
Funny how people hear different things. Until a couple of years ago my teenage son thought “going to Hell in a hand basket” was “Going to Hell in a ham basket”. Said he thought it was a Jewish expression.