Where did that saying come from?
He was (apocryphal) the only villager that watched Lady Godiva take her ride through town.
Wikipedia link (to the Peeping Tom section).
Oh shit, that’s where the cover for that heaven shall burn album came from!
(This one)
I don’t know how he even saw anything. I heard she was in a racing car, passing by
Defying the laws of gravity?
Don’t stop me now
So the only straight man in the village
That’s Tom from MySpace. Everyone got added as his friend so he could peep on anyone he wanted
I found out when looking into the term “tomboy” that a “tom” was a term for a boisterous and unruly boy. The word “tom” does come from tomcat as others have said because unneutered tomcats are often loud and unruly. I suspect Peeping Tom has a similar “tom” origin: an unruly boy that peeps on girls.
Peeping Tom, being Frank, Ruthless, smart Alec. I like to think that each saying started out with a particularly notable person.
I guess like the Goths, the Franks were a barbarian tribe, who were presumably reasonably direct and… frank, compared to sophisticated imperial types.
Tom is a cat that is always peeping on Jerry
Jerry is the villain
Tom was spying on Little Bo Peep.
