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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26342

    Phrases/words you love which should be used more

    As a positive antidote to the ‘teeth on edge’ thread, what are your favourite words or phrases which ought to be more widely-used?

    My current one is “stramash”
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

  • jayne lee wilson
    Banned
    • Jul 2011
    • 10711

    #2
    O Reason Not the Need..... (see elsewhere etc..)

    Applies to so much, from NHS to..... HiFi....

    Excess is best?

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 21994

      #3
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      As a positive antidote to the ‘teeth on edge’ thread, what are your favourite words or phrases which ought to be more widely-used?

      My current one is “stramash”
      Never ‘eard of it!

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      • Andy Freude

        #4
        Terricole came up in a crossword last week. I haven't yet succeeded in throwing it nonchalantly into the conversation.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26342

          #5
          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          Never ‘eard of it!
          It means a row or fracas, and by extension general mess or turmoil... (Scottish word)
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Alison
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6431

            #6
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            It means a row or fracas, and by extension general mess or turmoil... (Scottish word)
            We don’t seem to have so many of them these days!

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 20538

              #7
              Senza ripetizioni

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25098

                #8
                Insouciance.

                ( Picked up in my Fourth Form Divinity report .....” Teamsaint treats this subject with a gay insouciance” )
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • Edgy 2
                  Guest
                  • Jan 2019
                  • 2035

                  #9
                  Time for this week’s episode of interpretations on record
                  “Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky

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                  • gurnemanz
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7307

                    #10
                    kakistocracy

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                    • Zucchini
                      Guest
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 917

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Andy Freude View Post
                      Terricole came up in a crossword last week. I haven't yet succeeded in throwing it nonchalantly into the conversation.
                      "A pint of terricold lager for me, barman, and a hot dog for my terricold terrier"

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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 7652

                        #12
                        Obstreperous
                        Curmudgeonly
                        Effusive

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                        • Stanfordian
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 9243

                          #13
                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                          Obstreperous
                          Curmudgeonly
                          Effusive
                          Describe anyone in particular?

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5792

                            #14
                            Wibble, as heard on last night's wonderful R4 News Quiz
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              #15
                              Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                              Obstreperous
                              = The plotlines of Call the Midwife.
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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