blow me tight

English

Interjection

blow me tight

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) An expression of surprise.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow
    • 1838 December, “The Handley-Cross Hounds”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume 15, number 92, page 346:
      Puss 'unting is werry well for cripples, and those that keep donkeys (renewed cheers from the blues, with angry looks from the green-coated gentry)—Blow me tight, but I never sees a chap a trudging along the turnpike, with a thick stick in his 'and, and a pipe in his mouth, but I says to myself, there goes a man well-mounted for 'arriers!
    • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 9, in Three Men in a Boat […] ‎:
      "Wallingford lock!" they answered. "Lor' love you, sir, that’s been done away with for over a year. There ain't no Wallingford lock now, sir. You’re close to Cleeve now. Blow me tight if 'ere ain't a gentleman been looking for Wallingford lock, Bill!"

Derived terms

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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