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One of the attendants at the VA Hospital I worked at never wore any underpants.
He wanted to be cleared for action quickly.
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Is Brit matrimony more serene than US because both parties "wear the pants"?
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Misunderstandings from a foreign language can be full of humor, especially if you can laugh at yourself. "Faux amis," the French call them, false friends; they fool you and lead you astray.
Many years ago my family spent a summer in Venezuela in a rented home, and I was the only one there one day when a serviceman come to restock the bar. He asked me if we needed any beer (cerveza). The most I could make of it was that he wanted a tip - for "service," or something, I guessed. (After asking three times and getting nowhere he ignored me, checked the supply himself. We didn't.)
But then, this was the same smattering-of-high-school-French-speaking Norteamericano who saw on a hill by the road leaving the airport a sign that read "fume fortuna," and thought how extraordinarily considerate of their tourist guests these people were: they even pointed out the volcanos for them...it's an advertising billboard, and it means "smoke fortuna cigarettes"!
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Pants has recently (at least its recent to me!) developed a slang usage in the UK:
Pants(!):
2. Nonsense, rubbish. A currently very fashionable expression. E.g."The first half of the film was pants but I was glad I stayed until the end."
Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance or frustration. 'Oh, pants!'
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A boyhood ditty excerpt: "And they don't wear pants n the southern part of France
And the dance they do Is enough to kill a (unPC word)
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wwh - I'm not asking you to type the word but at least tell me it rhymes with -ance..?
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