#24390
03/22/2001 11:03 PM
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"I heard the fur was flying at the office this morning."
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03/22/2001 11:07 PM
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#24392
03/22/2001 11:11 PM
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Yep. Means folks was fightin'
#24393
03/23/2001 12:11 AM
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Merci mes choux but grrrrr the argument is not won yet, now he's saying that I didn`t ask whether it is a common expression or not. Is it in you neck of the woods?
#24394
03/23/2001 12:40 AM
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Very common down here, bel.
#24395
03/23/2001 9:32 AM
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Provenance - animals (with fur) fighting. Usage known here, but rarely used these days.
#24396
03/23/2001 11:24 AM
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Certainly common enough here to be understood by pretty much anyone.
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03/23/2001 11:32 AM
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Don't know, we don't fight in New York.
#24398
03/23/2001 1:50 PM
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Dear inselpeter: what you mean is that in New York everybody has been in so many fights they have no more fur to lose.
#24399
03/23/2001 1:52 PM
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they have not more fur to lose
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03/23/2001 2:13 PM
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wwh says, "they have no more fur to lose." "'they have not more fur to lose' Than whom?"
#24401
03/23/2001 2:19 PM
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Now how did that happen?!
#24402
03/23/2001 2:59 PM
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Very common in my youth. Don't hear it much anymore.
#24403
03/24/2001 2:58 PM
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03/24/2001 3:18 PM
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You are all too precious and I thank you a bunch.
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03/24/2001 3:23 PM
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03/26/2001 10:31 AM
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En français, l'expression correspondante serait: "Ils (elles) étaient en train de se crêper le chignon"
#24407
03/26/2001 1:53 PM
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Au Québec, we'd say...mettre de la broue dans son toupette.
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03/26/2001 3:27 PM
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"put foam in her bangs" this issue was addressed recently in "Something about Mary"
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03/26/2001 4:07 PM
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Dear belMarduk: is the French word "la broue" related to English word "brew" meaning beer,etc.?
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03/26/2001 5:09 PM
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Broue is used only in French Québec (the proper word being mousse) and in no other French speaking country. I can only find it in my dictionary of Québec colloquialisms. The etymology is not included.
I always assumed it was extrapolated from brouiller, which means mix up vigorously. As with most things that are mixed up vigorously, (egg whites for example), a foam is created.
Brew, as a term for beer, is not commonly used by Québec Anglophones. I wonder if that term is a U.S. thing. And, one thing you do not what on your brew is a lot of broue. Fire THAT bartender
