up the Oxo Tower

Meaning

Prepositional phrase

Origin

  • In reference to the Oxo Tower, a building on the River Thames in London, formerly owned by the makers of Oxo beef stock cubes (whose brown colour is likened in this phrase to that of excrement).

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