"Sleeping policemen" is idiomatic in the UK, too - sufficiently to
have
been used as the basis of a TV advert, I recall!
The ones in India are deep deep undercover I suppose, because they are
almost never painted or marked.
Lately I've been seeing how much russian I pick up by osmosis, using
On Apr 4, 2016 3:46 AM, "Alaric Snell-Pym" wrote:
>
> On 02/04/16 18:33, Dave Long wrote:
> > (the Jamaicans referred to speed bumps as "sleeping policemen"; I didn't
> > have the presence of mind to ask what the poles were called...)
>
> "Sleeping policemen" is idiomatic in the UK, too - sufficie
On 02/04/16 18:33, Dave Long wrote:
> (the Jamaicans referred to speed bumps as "sleeping policemen"; I didn't
> have the presence of mind to ask what the poles were called...)
"Sleeping policemen" is idiomatic in the UK, too - sufficiently to have
been used as the basis of a TV advert, I recall!
the hijacker ran away after making the plane land on a road
Once when I was in Jamaica, I thought it odd that there would be
(what I thought of as) snowplow poles lining the sides of the roads.
Upon asking a local, I was informed that the poles weren't for
snowplows, they were to keep any
