Pole-axed by The Lurgy. Sounds like a punk band.
Chambers has it thus:
"lurgy or lurgi noun (lurgies) 1 originally a highly infectious non-specific disease • caught the dreaded lurgy. 2 now a any illness that is not very serious............
ETYMOLOGY: 1950s: although it is generally believed that this was first coined in the radio show, The Goons, there is slight etymological evidence that dialectal variations of it already existed, eg fever-lurgy a euphemism for 'laziness'"
Prefer the Goon`s theory but have indeed been `lazy` - a day off work spent sitting watching the Great Thaw. Have decided the viciously cold weather we`ve been having really isn`t very British. This dripping, slushy stuff is more like it.
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Sorry to see you've been pole-axed by a lurgy. Sounds very Viking and north country to me. We don't do such things down in the Saxon south. How horrible for you and such a nuisance when there's all that pre-Christmas 'stuff'to be getting on with: making all your table decorations, writing the jokes and mottos for your homemade crackers, buying your presents, killing the goose. You'll be like Clarry - laid up, one handed and unable to pluck the bird!! I hope it doesn't linger and that you're up and walking quite fast again soon. It's been warmer down here today but that hasn't stopped husband getting a touch of the man flu himself. What with my gripes and his head cold.....We have just picked at fish fingers and chips washed down with a paracetamol each. Yummy. An early night calls. It'll all be better in the morning. Speak tomorrow? AX
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