Originally posted by CunningLinguist at 27-3-2010 02:53
Cantonese "yat lau yat" (meaning "one floor one") is a shortened form of "yat lau yat fung" (meaning "one floor one phoenix"). However, in Cantonese, "lau& ...
Actually I've also heard the evolved-from-original one-for-one, meaning there's no middle-person, or pimp involved. So one woman for one punter written in a sort of short-hand as 1-4-1. The pimp is the illegal element but in today's environment almost all the WGs here are illegal as they're Mainlanders on visitor's permits who shouldn't be working.
The ladies in the one-woman-brothels must have ID cards and therefor be local residents.
Which sort of takes us back to the original version of one-woman-one-flat.
Can any of you imagine what a sad place this would be if the police suddenly managed to chuck out all the lovely ladies from China! I would die!