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Chalk hat 862 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Meaning to "doing my canister in"

Hi.

There's that sentence or idiom - I'm not sure - that really confuses me: "doing my canister in". I've searched the net for a reasonable meaning, but couldn't find any.

Here it goes:

- My wife is doing my canister in now.

- Yea, they're supposed to do that when they're pregnant, aren't they?


What could it possibly mean?

Thanks in advance

  

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Another British idiom, I assume? I love them. I did find a few references on the internet, but none were completely clear.

— Clive

  • Another British idiom, I assume?
  • I love them.
  • I did find a few references on the internet, but none were completely clear.
  • I think the meaning is perhaps that s omething is really annoying me.
  • Clive
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Another British idiom, I assume? I love them.

I did find a few references on the internet, but none were completely clear. I think the meaning is perhaps that something is really annoying me.

Clive

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I'm a native English speaker in the US, and British slang is like a foreign language to me, but here the word "canister" seems to give a clue to the meaning. About the only time "canister" is heard in English is in a military context - if you have canister directed at you, you're in big trouble. So "doing my canister in" apparently has its origin in this: "My wife is doing my canister in no

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chalk hat 862doing my canister in

canister: southeast London slang for 'head'.
to do in: tire out; exhaust

So literally: tiring out my head

Less literally: driving me crazy.

CJ

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