July 18, 2007
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The first time I ever clicked anything was Thanksgiving 2006. One of the first things I found out about was Google (they were afraid to show me E-Bay). My premier forays were to find out where some of the expressions that I'd heard as a kid, from my Gran and my Mother, came from. Here are a few of them just so's you'll know where my love of language comes from, partly. Howsabout - - lord love a duck - - the worm turns - - cockamamie - - tilting at windmills - - march to the beat of a different drum - - peck's bad boys - - I'll be buggered (careful, that's my gran you're talkin' about) - - don't sass me - - cheeky - - warm the cockles of your heart - - in like Flynn (easy - move over Mr. Depp) - - a buck - - a copper (cop) - - a fin - - to get the colly wobbles - - hinky - - cahoots - - heeby jeebys - - and (the ever favorite) kit and kaboodle. Just to name a few. I know that you can find most of their meanings in the dictionary, (online, of course...ya, of course...), but How did they get here - - Google knows !
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I get the 'A phrase a week' newsletter, this week's was 'take umbrage'.....
...my vysage whiche is clowded with vmbrage.....
I blogged about the sea creatures here. I've put this here in comments as links don't go live in messages.
oo, those are all good ones. I'm rather fond of "hullabaloo", myself.
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