This could be like the phrase 'sodden wet '. For years I thought it was 'sodding wet'.
My Mum's, with my Grandma, was that when something impressed my grandmother re variety and selection, she said that 'they had more than tongue can tell.' Which meant that throughout her childhood my Mum was dimly convinced that there were two proverbial men, possibly brothers, called 'Tunc and Tel' known for having possessed a prodigious array of items.
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Date: 2006-11-11 12:31 pm (UTC)My Mum's, with my Grandma, was that when something impressed my grandmother re variety and selection, she said that 'they had more than tongue can tell.' Which meant that throughout her childhood my Mum was dimly convinced that there were two proverbial men, possibly brothers, called 'Tunc and Tel' known for having possessed a prodigious array of items.