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LunaticSVT · 06-05-2001, 09:27

Ok you aussies what the heck does this mean

Goes like the clappers.

Martin · 06-05-2001, 10:00

Means it goes fast, quick etc :D:D

FM · 06-05-2001, 14:58

To put it in Ford speak.. it goes like a phase III, cobra R or laminges XR8!!..

Chaps · 06-05-2001, 21:41

Best way to explain it is as foolows:
imagine, in a bid to get a camel moving faster, clapping two boards together around the delicate bits on a male.........

Aussie Falcon · 06-05-2001, 22:17

Quote:

GO LIKE THE CLAPPERS

Verb phrase

To travel very rapidly. To work very hard.

Jack Duckworth can go like the clappers when he wants to bet on the gee-gees.

Bill Webster goes like the clappers when he is working.

Origin, numerous possiblities exist for the origin of the phrase.
(a) a contrivance in a mill for striking or shaking the hopper so as to make the grain move down to the millstones;
(b) Historically, the lid of a clap-dish, or a rattle, used by beggars, lepers, etc., to attract attention;
(c) the tongue or striker of a bell;
(d) an instrument for frightening birds away.