Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bungay

Go to Bungay with you! —i.e. get away and don't bother me, or don't talk such stuff. Bungay, in Suffolk, used to be famous for the manufacture of leather breeches, once very fashionable. Persons who required new ones, or to have their old ones newseated, went or sent to Bungay for that purpose. Hence rose the cant saying, “Go to Bungay, and get your breeches mended,” shortened into “Go to Bungay with you!”

Bungay

My castle of Bungay. (See under Castle.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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