Where did Dust Bowl farmers go during the great depression? The displaced farmers became the migrants described in John Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath. Families from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas, packed what tâ¦hey could in cars and trucks and headed west.
Actually, the term is as old as the Navy, or perhaps older. Nautically, a lanyard is a short rope or wire rove through deadeyes to hold and tauten standing rigging. Lanyards are also known as the rope that is pulled to fire a cannon from a ship. Pirates actually using lanyards! We love that image here.
end up in the knacker's yard. To be in or enter a state of ruin or failure due to having become useless or obsolete. Refers to a slaughterhouse for old or injured horses. Once a booming industry before the age of the Internet, home video rental has largely ended up in the knacker's yard these days. See also: end, up, yard.