[Editors] British idiom?

[Lauren J. Clark]

I'm guessing that's cockney rhyming slang for tux.


At 11:39 AM -0500 1/10/07, Debbie Levey wrote:
>My Chinese houseguest relies heavily on an electronic translator
>device which seems to be programmed for British English, since it's
>full of words which I've learned from reading the Guardian  Weekly
>(toff, gormless). Yesterday we reviewed expressions using "soup" and
>it listed "soup and nuts" for what we'd call "tails" (men's formal
>clothing). Are you familiar with this term? I'd never heard it before.
>
>Debbie
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