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OP I'll offer up part of the latest E-mail from http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/ for something to talk about:
A piece of jargon we hadn't heard before, but quite like, is "tyre-kicker", a salesmen's phrase for the type of gullible customer who would feign expertise by kicking the tyres of a second-hand car to test its quality.
"Tire-kicker" is a very common expression among USns. Is this indeed new to y'all Brits?
Oh, and here's a query on rhyming slang:
...Some of the celebrity-based rhyming slang sounded extremely dubious. We'd love to know if any readers have ever heard phrases such as "Nelson Mandela" for "a pint of Stella" [Artois, a lager], "Colonel Gaddafi" for a café, or "Kat Slater" (a British soap-opera character) for "catch you later".
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Sure is quiet around here... AnnaStrophic 05/07/04 04:43 PM Re: Sure is quiet around here... Jackie 05/08/04 12:05 PM Re: Sure is quiet around here... TEd Remington 05/08/04 07:12 PM Re: Sure is quiet around here... AnnaStrophic 05/08/04 07:37 PM Re: Sure is quiet around here... jheem 05/09/04 02:13 PM Re: Sure is quiet around here... AnnaStrophic 05/09/04 04:17 PM Re: Sure is quiet around here... Jackie 05/12/04 01:52 PM Re: Sure is quiet around here... jheem 05/12/04 02:18 PM Re: Sure is quiet around here... Jackie 05/10/04 01:17 AM Weapons of Mass Spelling? shanks 05/11/04 04:56 PM Spelling, schmelling AnnaStrophic 05/11/04 07:04 PM Re: Weapons of Mass MISspelling? gift horse 05/13/04 01:10 AM Re: Weapons of Mass MISspelling? dxb 05/14/04 01:55 PM
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