British sayings American find funny
Aug 12th 2016, 1:47 am
#106
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Aug 12th 2016, 4:45 am
#107
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Re: British sayings American find funny
When I first moved over here, I was amazed at the amount of junk mail that arrived every day, but I will be forever grateful for the piece of junk mail advertising free membership to Spunk Gym. My imagination run riot!
My husband has often borrowed sayings from me - one of his favorites is 'up the chuff'', but I recently I have confused him with the saying 'with knobs on''.
What I do like about Americans asking what a phrase means, is I often have to think hard about it and even look it up to get the history of it or see the exact meaning, because often it's just instinctive, but you don't know the history or if the original meaning is still used today.
My husband has often borrowed sayings from me - one of his favorites is 'up the chuff'', but I recently I have confused him with the saying 'with knobs on''.
What I do like about Americans asking what a phrase means, is I often have to think hard about it and even look it up to get the history of it or see the exact meaning, because often it's just instinctive, but you don't know the history or if the original meaning is still used today.
Aug 12th 2016, 5:15 am
#108
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Re: British sayings American find funny
What I do like about Americans asking what a phrase means, is I often have to think hard about it and even look it up to get the history of it or see the exact meaning, because often it's just instinctive, but you don't know the history or if the original meaning is still used today.
Aug 12th 2016, 5:22 am
#109
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Re: British sayings American find funny
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