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I like blankie.
Googleizing gets this:
blankie-34,400
blanky-10,400
blankey-18,700
All three show references to small blankets on the first page of each search, but blankie shows more.
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Alexis, I haven't heard that one for years and years and years and ....!
Bean, how about 'blankette' or even 'blanquette', shhh...don't want to start a food thread!
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I love 'like piffy on a rock bun', though I always thought it was a Cornish expression. Quinion has this to say http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-pif1.htm
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Piffy, I like piffy on a rock bun - no-one will know what I mean.
When a joke or idea doesn't work I use my mom's "that went over like a lead balloon"
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One I just heard yesterday from an expatriate Brit:
"Like chalk and cheese." From the context, this corresponds to the US expression "Apples and oranges," when making a point about comparing two things that aren't comparable.
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I like it better than apples and oranges. Apples and oranges *are comparable.
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Just fwiw, I have never heard the expression "comparing chalk and cheese", used in the way I have heard "comparing apples and oranges." The most common use of C&C up here in Zild is in comparing people - "those two are like chalk and cheese". The meaning is closer to "oil and water", or at least conveys an odd pairing. No doubt Pfranz will correct me, but we do the use the phrases "comparing apples with apples" and "apples with oranges" for use hen describing comparisons of things. To my ear, the Zild use of C&C has more to with compatibility than comparability. Just my $0.02
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Hmm. I would have said like chalk and cheese meant incompatible rather than incomparable. Usually said of people who you just know are going to disagree with each other and have endless rows.
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I wasn't chopped-livering you, honest, sjm. You slipped in while I was writing.
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Bingley, don't worry. You may be able to spit on it from where you are, but you're still South of the Equator, and Upworlders have to stick together.
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