Who would have thought it - to curry favour - or more correctly to curry Favel
Certainly appears that the pedants don't have it
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/what-i ... d-of-words
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Re: To curry favour
Oh dear. Apart from the one about currying Favel, I had the original (and "correct") understanding of every linguistic example she gave. What an impossible, intractable old fart I must be.
Does anybody really talk about a damp squid?
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Does anybody really talk about a damp squid?
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Re: To curry favour
AleisterCrowley wrote:I like the idea of an 'escape goat'
Pre - Madonna, meaning a female with diva-like qualities which hark back to the heady days before "Desperately Seeking Susan".
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