[Editors] British idiom?

[Beryl Rosenthal]

You've all just explained my boss.  Thanks!
Beryl

On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Liz McGrath wrote:

>
> Tin of Fruit = Suit
> Skin and Blister = sister
> Chicken's Neck = check
> Apples and Pears = stairs
> Dog and Bone = phone
>
> and lots of rude ones, I will refrain from providing.
>
> I could go on and on.  Rhyming slang is still very popular in the UK
> and in Ireland from where I hail!
>
> Liz
>
>
>> Yes, of course. From my British grandmother and P.G.
>> Wodehouse.  Until I happened upon Wodehouse, I didn't realize that an
>> entire species (English people in the 1920s) talked like my
>> grandmother.  Another term for formal dress (as worn at dinner) was
>> "the old soup and fish."
>>
>> At 11:39 AM 1/10/2007, 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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