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up the wooden hill to bedfordshire

Upstairs, to prepare for bed.

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  • The phrase was a coy way of encouraging children to get ready for bed. They would no doubt also have been exhorted to 'pop into their jim jams' and be enticed with the promise of being tucked up and read a bedtime story. phrases.org.uk
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You better go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire right this instant!

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Submitted on January 01, 2020

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suas an cnoc adhmaid go bedfordshire

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