Meaning Of Home James
The phrase home james and don t spare the horses is used as a humorous exhortation to a driver james is a generic posh christian name arbitrarily given to a driver.
Meaning of home james. The original saying to the coach driver was supposedly home james and don t spare the horses the movie one allegedly goes once around the park and home james said to the chauffeur dates from the mid 1800s. It is a widely understood phrase used by a passenger to his or her driver telling the driver to take him or her home. It s a movie cliche.
Home james and don t spare the horses. She would be driven about when not using a train by horse drawn carriage as was the convention at the time. Used as a humorous way of exhorting the driver of a vehicle to drive home quickly.
This phrase was originally used in the shorter form home james. I have found an early occurrence of this in the story of chimmie fadden who explains to a friend of his why he is standing by a carriage and wearing a. There was also a 1934 song with the same phrase as a title.