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To curry favour
Posted: July 21st, 2019, 11:01 pm
by AsleepInYorkshire
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-wordsAiY
Re: To curry favour
Posted: July 22nd, 2019, 12:56 pm
by bungeejumper
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?
BJ
Re: To curry favour
Posted: July 22nd, 2019, 1:10 pm
by AleisterCrowley
I like the idea of an 'escape goat'
Re: To curry favour
Posted: July 22nd, 2019, 1:44 pm
by dionaeamuscipula
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".
DM
Re: To curry favour
Posted: July 22nd, 2019, 2:27 pm
by PinkDalek
Tinder bio?