... take a swagging right hand bend ..

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Sat 6 May 2006 07:21
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - L'escargot
It's part of the instructions on how to get to a property, in an estate agent's brochure. I'm not going to view it, but what does "swagging" mean?
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Sat 6 May 2006 08:22
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - local yokel
intr.v., swagged, swag·ging, swags.

1. Chiefly British. To lurch or sway.

So perhaps it's a bend that has a partial S in it, so you lurch round it rather than travel smoothly round a steady radius?
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Sat 6 May 2006 11:25
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - Altea Ego
If an estate agent has to come up with an old english term for a bend, it has to have deep significance. It probable means one of, or a combination of, several things.

1/ Its so tight the removal van wont get round it
2/ Every week a car fails to make the bend, crashes through
a: the garden wall
b: the front room
c: the greenhouse
d:makes the house uninsurable.
3/ there is nowhere to park the car except outside where it gets destroyed on a weekly basis.
4/ The severn bore rushes down the road, fails to make the bend and floods the house every equinox tide.
5/ Snowdrifts pile up at the bend every year and trap you in the house for 7 weeks.

If it wasnt a problem he wouldnt mention it (it terms you cant understand), if it was good it would be a selling point (in terms you can)
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Sat 6 May 2006 12:33
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - Bill Payer
..you've obviously had a lot of experience with estate agents!
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Sat 6 May 2006 13:33
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - Stuartli
I've always known it as a burglar's ill-gotten gains or, alternatively, to walk in an arrogant or cocky manner as well as to lurch or sway whilst walking.
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Sat 6 May 2006 14:51
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - Union Jack
"... a swagging right hand bend" "....ill-gotten gains or, alternatively, to walk in an arrogant or cocky manner as well as to lurch or sway whilst walking"

Just glanced at the computer in passing, so may not be reading these posts quite correctly since I haven't got my reading glasses on, but I thought we had been discouraged from making comments about a certain much-loved politician ....

Jack
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Sun 7 May 2006 09:43
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - sierraman
I've always known it as a burglar's ill-gotten gains or, alternatively,
to walk in an arrogant or cocky manner as well as
to lurch or sway whilst walking.


Surely that is swaggering.
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Sat 6 May 2006 15:12
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - Manatee
TVM might be on to something. Chambers has

swagging = noun meaning "... a subsidence, as of ground over a mine; a depression..."

among other irrelevant things to do with curtains and waltzing Matilda.
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Sat 6 May 2006 18:26
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - BazzaBear {P}
I think we're all making this too complicated.
It seems clear to me that Carcoat Damphands of Sniffpetrol fame has decided to try his hand at Estate Agency. Minty.
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Sat 6 May 2006 18:31
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - mss1tw
That's a lot of mango for the baboon.
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Sat 6 May 2006 19:08
... take a swagging right hand bend .. - Pugugly {P}
As in "anybody who buys that house must be round the swagging bend" perhaps.
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