Hawsepiper
A person of high rank who did not go to college.
From sailing days when officers who use to be deck hands were asked how they got there job they replied "I climbed up the hawsepipe" (hawsepipe: the pipe that an anchor rope passes through)
From sailing days when officers who use to be deck hands were asked how they got there job they replied "I climbed up the hawsepipe" (hawsepipe: the pipe that an anchor rope passes through)
"How'd you get to be captain?"
"I'm a hawsepiper you P.O.S. college boy"
"I'm a hawsepiper you P.O.S. college boy"
Rusty Hawsepipe
When you don't listen to instructions well
Rubber ear
Rubber ear
He gave her the rusty hawsepipe on being instructed what to do.