Meanings
- humorousnot comparableFurther forward; more advanced.
Bright back-chat cheers the patient, but gets us no forrarder.
1930, Dorothy L Sayers, Strong Poison4 more examples
Good morning, Inspector. Any forrarder? Yes, sir. I think we are a little forrarder.
1931, Agatha Christie, The Sittaford MysteryThey had him back to the Greffe; and there he was, after years of studying and going to college, no forrarder than when he left school.
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 190‘I mean we've heard all the things it isn't for, and we've heard it's not being spent. But we're no forrarder, are we, bless us? We don't seem to know anything.’
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 168I was ordered to take in six months' stores yesterday and I have been hurrying to and fro among these slow sly circumspect creatures ever since, without getting any forrarder at all [...].
1984, Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World
Origin
Dialectal form of forwarder.
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