Iliff-King phrasebook
definition
sweat cobs verb
Sweat profusely
Example
Well we caught the train, but now I’m sweating cobs
Origin
Unclear. A cob is an old word in the north & midlands of England for anything round, and persists in cob (a type of bread roll) and cobble. A cob is also a breed of workhorse common in Victorian Britain, that could well have given “sweating like a cob” as an ancestor expression
Collector
Granny – 1920s?
Marion Dixon (Howes) – mother of Mum, spouse of Pop
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