Shut Your Potato Trap and Give Your Redrag a Holiday

Grant, I learned just this week that the term red rag is an old slang word that means the tongue.

It goes back to the 17th century.

Red rag. Red rag. I don’t think I know that one. How does that work in a sentence?

Well, I’m looking at Francis Grose’s old dictionary from 1785, and there’s a citation that goes,

Shut your potato trap and give your red rag a holiday.

Good advice at all times.

Or here’s a more positive one from 1908.

He shook that red rag of his and a continuous flow of speech ensued.

Sounds like a few politicians I know.

Right. Well, get your red rag shaken and call us 877-929-9673.