Posted by John Giddy on September 23, 2006 at 00:33:01 from 144.133.64.153 user jgiddy.
In Reply to: Re: Here? Hear? (Was Hotting up the past with smoke? posted by PeterH on September 22, 2006 at 15:58:29:
I agree with Peter. I have always understood that the phrase: "Hear Hear" was used in debates by the members of the audience to exhort the others to pay particular heed to what the speaker was saying. It has now become mainly an expression of agreement with the sentiments being expressed, but this is just a contraction of the scope of the original meaning.