Re: "...delicious meat!"; R4 'Culture Shock'; BBC WS 01:30 GMT 17 JUL 2007

On Jul 17, 10:09 am, Blue Sow <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> FCS wrote:
> > As a note on idiomatics the [...]
> > To Those Learning English: beware!
> > [...]
>
> All that followed was to be ignored.
>
> There were no double meanings in the extracts quoted.

Er, I never said the double meaning was
meant but that it would be a highly
inappropriate idiom to use in Britain.

> Interesting how those who desire but are deprived see that which they
desire
> even where it does not exist.

Yes, like you see Freudian frameworks
where there are none. This reply being
a prime example.

It's precisely the kind of idiom that
would show up in the R4 18:30 comedy
slot on the lips of Humphrey Lyttleton
Nicholas Parsons or Julian Clary.

You've never heard of beef curtains I
take it?

> --
> Blue Sow

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