Talk:go off the boil

Request for verification
Rfv-sense: To lose interest (usage examples are about people). I added two senses that resemble those in other dictionaries, which don't have this sense. Labeled elsewhere as UK/Oz. DCDuring TALK 18:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Two cites added (1987 & 2009). And the initial, literal, def. Pingku 19:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * And the third, 1955. Pingku 20:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * They look pretty good. I wonder if we can reword to have fewer than four senses that span the meanings. DCDuring TALK 20:17, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Is rfved sense always about sex? DCDuring TALK 20:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The Brits perhaps are preoccupied with sex and the war. The US quote is about pudding... Pingku 20:46, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * A Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors (Peter Richard Wilkinson, 1993, Routledge) says of "go off the boil": Lose the sexual urge; lose the contractions and labour pains, of a woman in childbirth. Pingku 14:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

RFV passed; thanks for the cites, Pingku! —Ruakh TALK 22:39, 16 December 2009 (UTC)