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- Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:26 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Psephology
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8942
- Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:30 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SCRUB
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7978
scrub
In Australia scrub also refers to native bushland.
- Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:01 am
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: Out of left field
- Replies: 4
- Views: 25895
I always thought it was a baseball expression. I remember coming across something on the internet some time ago suggesting it may have come from a reference to a mental hospital to the left of the left field on a baseball park in Chicago. Also there is the fact that left has since Latin times been t...
- Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:50 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Know why "kn" is used where "n" would su
- Replies: 16
- Views: 80865
- Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:15 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Lucked Out
- Replies: 27
- Views: 74729
Actually I like the beer in Belgium, every different type of beer has to be served in its own specific type of glass. It seems this got tough on some of the types of beer which came later as they were being served in bunsen burner shaped glasses. Best beer I ever had in Germany was in the Augustine ...
- Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:01 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Lucked Out
- Replies: 27
- Views: 74729
- Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:13 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Lucked Out
- Replies: 27
- Views: 74729
- Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:42 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Lucked Out
- Replies: 27
- Views: 74729
- Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:57 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Lucked Out
- Replies: 27
- Views: 74729
Lucked Out
I was watching an American movie the other night and one of the characters said he "lucked out" - the meaning being he got lucky. I have always heard the term "lucked out" used to mean ran out of luck. Is there a different meaning for this term in America?
Camp
Wondering what the etymology is for this word. Not camp as in tent and fire in some wilderness setting but camp as in Blankety Blanks or the Batman and Robin tv serials of the 1960s.
- Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:56 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: How do you say cathedral in that language?
- Replies: 75
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Salisbury Cathedral has to be one of my favourite cathedrals I have been to, although I recall having to stand a long way back to photograph the whole thing. Actually I think I just like the whole area especially the view from the top of Old Sarem, if I remember the name of the hill correctly, which...