Ray T
master brummie
My mother used to say that somebody was "for the 'igh jump", meaning they'd been caught doing wrong and were going to be punished. I guess the "high jump" referred to was associated with hanging. And if something was broken my mother used to say it had "gone west". This is interesting because it seems to have connection with the ancient Egyptian belief that the west was where people's spirits went after death, that being the region of the setting sun, symbolically dying every day. That's why Egyptian pyramids and tombs were traditionally placed on the west side of the Nile. So far as I know, this idea wasn't indigenous to Britain. And while I can't say the Egyptians brought it to the Midlands themselves, I wonder if Bronze Age traders carried the idea from the Mediterranean along with their pots and necklaces a few thousand years ago.
Regards, Ray T
Regards, Ray T