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On one’s Jack Jones / jack jones came from wooden plaques shaped like a black cat (an Old Tom) mounted on the outside wall of some pubs above a public walkway in the 18th-century England. Owing to a scandalous news report of a tragedy involving a murdered family, gin was outlawed and went underground, changing from a cloudy liquid to its modern clear form so as to appear like water. After a pedestrian deposited a penny in the cat’s mouth, they would place their lips around a small tube between the cat’s paws. From the tube would come a shot of gin, poured by the bartender inside the pub. On one’s Jack Jones / jack jones (Br inf) – сам по себе, в одиночку An example of Cockney Rhyming Slang, a type of slang in which words are replaced by words or phrases they rhyme with. So the phrase “On your Jack (Jones)” means “alone”: You’re on your Jack Jones. Ben’s deserted you. On Shank’s mare – на своих двоих, пешком; «пёхом» Shanks’/shanks’s mare (or nag or pony) derives from the name of the lower part of the leg between the knee and ankle – the shank, nowadays more often known as the shinbone. The early form of this term – shank’s nag – originated in Scotland in the 18th century. When it crossed the Atlantic, the expression migrated into shank’s mare, which remains the common form in the USA. It was first referred to there in the 1860s. In the UK and Australia the term is commonly shanks’ pony. It is sometimes capitalized as Shank’s pony as some reports claim it to have derived from an individual called Shanks, or from the Shanks & Company Ltd., who previously manufactured lawn-mowing machines. One such horse-drawn mower had no seat and the driver had to walk behind it. Examples of these machines still exist and this would be a plausible theory if it weren’t for the clear pre-dating of the 122