Aunt y arms

As we get older, our upper arms (triceps) can lose muscle tone.This phenomenon is often called aunty arms. Other names include nanna’s arms; bingo wings; goodbye muscles; or piano arms, because this is the bit that moves when someone is belting out a tune on the piano. Or – and this is my favourite – they can be called reverse biceps, because instead of standing up, as biceps normally do, they hang down. It’s all, of course, a salute to Aussie verbal inventiveness… and to how much we love our aunties.