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Re: Picking Up a Room

#121184 01/25/2004 4:58 PM

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It's an Americanism with a capital "Jeez you ain't kiddin'"! The expression is never, to my knowledge, used anywhere else than in the US of, um, A. It sounds odd to me, even though I have heard it dunnamany times now. I always have this vision of someone bodily hefting the room into the air and then doing ... something ... with it!

We would say (and by we, I mean the bulk of the English-speaking world) "tidy up a room".

Sorry WordyWon!

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more bins than rubbish for them dodyskin 01/27/2004 1:46 PM

translation, please AnnaStrophic 01/27/2004 1:54 PM

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mean streets of the inner city dodyskin 01/29/2004 11:38 AM

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