>In your message dated: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 10:01:55 BST you write:
>>
>>Have my English-American phrase book and am practising.....
>>
>>'Get down off that horse and imbibe some refreshment my good man'
>>
>>How am I doing?
>
>Clive:
>Some colorful phrases from my neck of the woods:
>
>"We're in tall cotton now, son"
>
>"Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while"
>
>"When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember to
>drain the swamp"
>
>I'll leave it to the reader to determine what these phrases mean and
>when they should be used... :)
>
>Cheers,
>--Lee
Those are pretty good, Lee. However, you should give Clive some phonetics
so that he will not get strange looks. No one could get away with saying
those things without a really thick Southern accent. "Ev'n uh blahnd hawg
fahns un aikern wunstin a whahl." ;-)
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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