Optimism

Sorting through travel literature reminds us that there is often a gap between what we hope to do on a trip and what is actually possible. We had a marvellous trip to China in 2007, although we didn’t explore the whole of the Great Wall, or become fluent in Mandarin phrases.
 
Apropos of yesterday’s Knobs, Google tells us that they are 1920s slang. And as Talpa says, the expression was often “Same to you with brass knobs”, a reference perhaps to the brass knobs that often adorned those black iron bed frames.

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