# Explain this sentence from Dickens **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 19, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-sentence-from-dickens/1011871 "2024-12-19T15:48:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-sentence-from-dickens/1011871/21 "2024-12-21T15:09:20Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > that’s a chain of not exactly healthy piri-piri chicken restaurants). Well, it’s grilled and not fried, at least. It doesn’t seem particularly unhealthy to me, except maybe for the skin, but maybe you want the skin as you’re doing a higher fat/protein type of diet. Or you pick it off. Anyhoo, they’ve made inroads in the American market, but they’re only in a handful of metro areas (luckily for me, Chicago is one of them.) I love that stuff! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-sentence-from-dickens/1011871/22 "2024-12-21T17:05:08Z")
My Scottish grandmother used to call me a “cheeky blighter” when I was being a little smartass. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-sentence-from-dickens/1011871/23 "2024-12-21T21:01:49Z")
The Cheeky Girls (Christmas pop songs for pre-teens) are/were from Romania; evidently even many foreign speakers know this word. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-sentence-from-dickens/1011871.md?page=1)