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#121184 01/25/2004 4:58 PM

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Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok

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Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok

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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Picking Up a Room Wordwind 01/25/2004 1:41 PM

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Re: Picking Up a Room hibernicus 01/26/2004 3:37 PM

Re: Picking Up a Room of troy 01/26/2004 3:58 PM

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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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Re: Speaking of which ... Capfka 01/29/2004 9:11 AM

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

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An offal you can't refuse AnnaStrophic 01/30/2004 1:12 PM

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picking up TEd Remington 02/16/2004 11:56 AM

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Re: Sis Effusion Wordwind 01/27/2004 5:11 PM

Re: Picking Up a Room TEd Remington 02/01/2004 5:27 PM

Re: Picking Up a Room wwh 01/27/2004 5:48 PM

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