The Hard Shoulder - Threw Me Out
'Two's a crowd'
Rich Harding pointed out this line is
based on the popular idiom, 'two's company, three's a crowd': a group of two
people is comfortable; a group of three is not.
'No more trouble No more strife'
Trouble
and strife’ is Cockney rhyming slang for ‘wife’. Cockney is a working class
dialect from the East End of London.
'Opening drawers'
Rich Harding
made the point that
'drawers'
means the storage device but is also also an anachronistic term for a lady's
underwear, typically of a long shorts style in silk, and may therefore be an
admission of adultery, fitting in with the theme of the piece.
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