Re: Hunky-dory
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:10 pm
Stirring is easy. But if I'm going to churn, I will have to put a lid on it, or I'll spill it on the floor.
Besides -- since we're talking about rhyming compounds -- my own first experience hearing about hara-kiri was during an episode of The Flintstones, where Fred referred to it as "Harry Carry." (Or was it Barney who said it? I'm not sure...)It is surely unfair to dismiss Hari-Kari on the basis that it is Japanese