Bloke at work was always using the expression he or she "Turned round and said----". I wondered if everyone he knew faced away from him before turning round to speak. But then he was an obnoxious twat. Or should that be an obnouxshas twat!!
you not read Charlie & the Chocolate factory then ??
Bloke at work was always using the expression he or she "Turned round and said----".
Is he speaking about talking to multiple people? Maybe he accepts that many people avert their glaze when talking to one another if they are self conscious... Or maybe his friends were spinning round like you probably did as kids.
Weee:
Maybe it was just a turn of phrase.
Would it be better if he said something along these lines: "he turned his head to look at me and said..."
The best one of these, of all time, is still the one that popped up on Netaddicks where someone thought that the saying 'the pot calling the kettle black was, in fact, 'popcorn kettle black'.
Still wonder to this day whether they post here - is they do, they've kept it really quiet cos I've already mentioned it more than once.
A South African bloke I knew used to try to remember phrases he’d heard but nearly always got them wrong. One of his best being “like the cat that spilt the milk”.
I’m always underwhelmed when someone (usually a politician) claims to have made a quantum leap forward – after all, a quantum is the SMALLEST amount of something (such as energy) which can exist in a given situation in physics!
It should be "All that glisters is not gold " but the glitters version seems to be generally accepted now
Glisters is not in common usage these days so glitters is probably more understandable. You could always go back to Chaucer's Hyt is not al golde that glareth which predates Shakespeare's line.
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you not read Charlie & the Chocolate factory then ??
Weee:
Maybe it was just a turn of phrase.
Would it be better if he said something along these lines:
"he turned his head to look at me and said..."
Low level - when people actually mean fewer details.
Of course he dont, I bet he's never been to the woods in his life.
Still wonder to this day whether they post here - is they do, they've kept it really quiet cos I've already mentioned it more than once.
One of his best being “like the cat that spilt the milk”.
But the thing that drives me mad is "try and " rather than 'try to '
Sums it all up for me.
The other was writing in a letter "I don't think"
Apparently, I'm paid to think.
I have no problem with "Does the Pope shit in the woods?", nor with "Is the bear a Catholic?" as it's obviously mixing two clichés for "comic" effect.
Glisters is not in common usage these days so glitters is probably more understandable. You could always go back to Chaucer's Hyt is not al golde that glareth which predates Shakespeare's line.