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Lewisham
after you'd said something considered very silly/funny someone might say (in the 40s) 'It won't be long, it won't be Lewisham' ('Lewisham' referring to the general hospital then existent in that suburb, as opposed to a psychiatric hospital such as Callan Park (Rozelle psychiatric hospital): Informal conversation in a group of friends, when laughter prevailed, and someone engaged in a particularly funny/silly flight of fancy.