Albatross (metaphor) attention to her merchandise, while the potential customer keeps asking questions about the product, like "What flavour is it?" and "Do you get wafers with it?". Finally the man buys two albatrosses for nine pence each. The salesgirl then shouts she is selling "gannet on a stick." Later during the episode, several other characters in other sketches shout "Albatross" for seemingly no reason at all. Albatross (metaphor) The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden that feels like a curse. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798).
Hello in publications as early as 1803. The word "hullo" is still in use, with the meaning "hello". "Hello" is alternatively thought to come from the word "hallo" (1840) via "hollo" (also "holla", "holloa", "halloo", "halloa"). The definition of "hollo" is to shout or an exclamation originally shouted in a hunt when the quarry was spotted: Fowler's has it that "hallo" is first recorded "as a shout to call attention" in 1864. It is used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" written in 1798: In many Germanic languages, including German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Afrikaans,