On Thursday 23 January 2003 08:22 pm, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > This goes for some idiomatic expressions that mean quite different > > things across boarders and oceans. Getting "knocked-up" in Great > Britain vs. USA, for instance. <g>
Then there is the generational differences in idiomatic expression. I was in my late 20's and getting ready to go out for the evening and my mother asked me if I was going out "balling". After a couple coughs and a quizzical no it dawned on me that "balling" to her generation was the equivalent of "partying" to mine. I never did have the courage to explain her faux pax to her. BUTCH "Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself" Hermann Hesse (Demian)
