where does the term doing porridge come from
Porridge Porridge was also commonly used as prison food for inmates in the British prison system, and so "doing porridge" became a slang term for a sentence in prison.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Molly Bawn contains Hungerford's most famous idiom:
Religio The Latin term
Polka dot It is likely that the term originated in popularity of polka dance at the time the pattern became fashionable, just as many other products and fashions of the era also adopted the "polka" name.[1]