Back to bromide, I remember this phrase being used when I was a kid in the 1970s. I couldn't understand why it would stop men being randy, unless it was staining their teeth brown so no women fancied them!
I always thought of it as the awkward shaped cupboard under the stairs where the junk that was too good to be thrown out was put. Also the winter boots. We haven't got stairs in this house, so I suppose that's why I haven't used it for a while.
Isn't that where Harry Potter lived when he was with the Dursleys?
Yes, at least early on in the first book. They moved him to Dudley’s extra room after a Hogwarts letter came addressed to Harry at “The Cupboard Under the Stairs.”
Fun Harry Potter fact - the new TV series intends to build (is building?) a mockup of a mock-tudor street to house the Dursleys, based on houses over the road from my Dad's place in the town in which I grew up. They were looking for middle-class prejudice, mediocrity and neighbour-envy...and they chose Essex. Imagine
Fun Harry Potter fact - the new TV series intends to build (is building?) a mockup of a mock-tudor street to house the Dursleys, based on houses over the road from my Dad's place in the town in which I grew up. They were looking for middle-class prejudice, mediocrity and neighbour-envy...and they chose Essex. Imagine
Fun Harry Potter fact - the new TV series intends to build (is building?) a mockup of a mock-tudor street to house the Dursleys, based on houses over the road from my Dad's place in the town in which I grew up. They were looking for middle-class prejudice, mediocrity and neighbour-envy...and they chose Essex. Imagine
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