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Re: "Gobsmacked"...

To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: "Gobsmacked"...
From: Lester Ewing <lewing@sport.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 23:14:03 -0500
umm..  back in the good ol' days knackered was to be exhausted from a  
particular activity  ahem..

Lester


On Apr 16, 2006, at 10:09 PM, b-evans@earthlink.net wrote:

> Wm. Severin Thompson wrote:
>
>> While you're at it, Guy, can you explain the origin of one of my  
>> favorites... "gobsmacked"?
>>
> Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Bertrand Russell have all
> been credited with saying that England and America are two great  
> nations
> separated only by a common language.  You can add to "fanny",  
> "fag", and
> "pants" the term "knackered", for it is something that we have all
> experienced.  ("Knackered" is to be beat, wiped out, tired, exhausted,
> etc.)
>
> Buster Evans




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