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Where'd everyone go?; Seriously!
Topic Started: Feb 19 2012, 01:05 AM (1,901 Views)
Shadowflight
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Don't forget all the weird vocabulary
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towr
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The only weird vocabulary I can discern is "backronym", but they provide a helpful link to explain it (not that it's necessary). Everything else seems rather run-of-the-mill English.
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TheDeepDark
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Since you know, nearly all English speakers still run mills these days ^__^
(not to be remotely jerk-like or whatever, I just couldn't help noticing in context)
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towr
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Well, I know you've outsourced a lot of production in America, but surely you've still got plenty off mills of all kinds for manufacturing. You'd be surprised what requires milling, it's not just grinding grains, you know.
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This is true. our coinage still has milled edges.
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Since you know, nearly all English speakers still run mills these days ^__^
Well, it could still make sense if you use its verb meaning "to mill around" as in "loitering" - goodness knows there's plenty of THAT.
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Hmm. I do suppose it still works that way. <sigh>
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Snofox Kari
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guess there are plenty of old sayings we still use regardless of whether they're still actually applicable :lol:
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I still remember the first time I started reading this thing that went into the history of some sayings
The whole nine yards is the only one I distinctly remember, cuz it ended up concluding that the origin was one of three or four distinctly different possibilities
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That would be an interesting reading- I have wondered where we got some of our slightly odd sayings.
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towr
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Such as?

Maybe I could find out where they come from, or if I can't, I could always make something up :P
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Snofox Kari
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it's fun to make something up and then see how accurate you are :lol: a lot of times it may be just as it seems, but there are some that are pretty hard to determine except in the context we currently use it

fun stuffs
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How about "That's the long and short of it"? Or when you say someone's got a chip on their shoulder? Or being the apple of someone's eye? Or beating around the bush? Or when you "can't cut the mustard"? Or "a dead ringer"? Or why we ask to excuse our French when we swear? Or flipping the bird (it doesn't look a bit like a bird, seriously)? Or a flash in the pan? Or getting up on the wrong side of the bed? Or "Kitty (or catty) corner"? Or kick the bucket? (Though that one I think might have something to do with hanging.) Or "no bones about it"?

...Yeah, I'll stop before I think of more I wondered about.
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towr
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Mar 5 2012, 07:30 PM
How about "That's the long and short of it"?
Do you want the long version or the short version? :P
I expect that would be about all of it.

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Or when you say someone's got a chip on their shoulder?
"And I dare you to knock it off!"

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Or being the apple of someone's eye?

apple=aperture, i.e. it's (figuratively) in the middle

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Or beating around the bush?
It's the preliminary to a hunt, to drive the game from cover. Once you're done beaten about the bush you start the real hunt.

Well, let's just say you can find a lot of them explained on http://www.phrases.org.uk , so I'll skip a few.

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Or "a dead ringer"?
bad joke
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Or a flash in the pan?
Probably to do with a grease fire. Which can quickly end in your house burning down.
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Mmm...that site doesn't have "cut it out!"- one I've wondered about for a good while.
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