What is your favourite British saying?
Jan 8th, 2007, 04:44 AM
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PatrickLondon: Thanks for explaining "all sixes and sevens." Last night the phrase "gone pear shaped" appeared in our favorite show Mythbusters. I was able to explain it to my husband. Thanks for all of the insite into our common language.
Jan 26th, 2007, 10:46 AM
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>>Mild language is indeed language that might have offended Queen Victoria<<
Only if you assume that "language" means "bad language". In my understanding of English, "mild language" is language that would not, ever, have offended anyone.
Only if you assume that "language" means "bad language". In my understanding of English, "mild language" is language that would not, ever, have offended anyone.
Apr 16th, 2007, 08:50 AM
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If you get up somebody's nose, you are not merely annoying them. You are really pissing them off.
BTW to tick somebody off means to reprimand them not annoy them.
I rather like "short arms and deep pockets" to describe somebody who is canny with their brass.
BTW to tick somebody off means to reprimand them not annoy them.
I rather like "short arms and deep pockets" to describe somebody who is canny with their brass.
Apr 16th, 2007, 09:14 AM
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Annhig - my grandmother (from the backwoods of Kentucky - who had never been out of the US) used dreckly all the time but I assumed she just meant "directly" meaning something akin to, "I'll get around to doing it"...like you said, without urgency. That's funny. I just had to comment.
