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FredPuli43 | 13:49 Tue 23rd Jul 2013 | Phrases & Sayings
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What a corker! A corking result! What has cork to do with these, somewhat demoded, expressions?
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13:53 Tue 23rd Jul 2013
I cricket a great delivery is called a 'jaffa'. I'll have to look them up
the cork's the last thing to go on a bottle. In boxing a corker was a knockout, the last thing in a fight. So a corker is someone who's a knockout.

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