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Why are people told to 'shut UP' or to 'pipe DOWN' when they are being quietened, but when they interject, they are said to be 'piping UP' or 'chiming IN' and admonished to butt OUT??Does the 'pipe'...
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I guess I was tickling for that. I'm aware of the US ticked off but in UKlish, a ticking off is a reprimand. Nice little difference in colloquial usage.
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I'll tick that off my list of ambiguities to be explored.
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So does that supplant the US usage, or are they both in use there? Would "I ticked off my boss" be ambiguous, with many (most) UBs hearing it as "yelled at"?Would only mean "angered" here (unless your...
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I've heard 'ticked off' as angered here maybe... twice ever. I'd automatically take it as 'told off/yelled at'. Of course, I can't presume that's so for all UKarites.'Chewed out'... is perhaps a bit...
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I've heard 'ticked off' as angered here maybe... twice ever. I'd automatically take it as 'told off/yelled at'. Of course, I can't presume that's so for all UKarites.O kA, dma,But do you have "tick"...
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Yes, same ticklist sense; but I'm not too sure whether we'd use 'ticked off'in that context. Maybe just 'ticked'?On surveys, forms etc with multiple choice boxes, we might be asked to tick the...
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> As a mark one makes on a list -- a "tick mark". As both suggests, that would be the most obvious use here.Say whu...?!?!?! What part of "very few people" and "very rare contexts" don't you...
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The use of "tick" to mean to check off is very common in the US.What was not known was the specific use of "ticker" to mean the beer drinkers who pride themselves on drinking many different types of...
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Yes, I'm aware of that, but the point is that "tick" is infrequent enough that noone could make the extension. Supermarket checkers, for example - never heard one called a "ticker", and I bet I never...
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Yes, that is true of "ticker" and to a lesser extent "ticklist," but "tick mark" and "tick that box" is common and familiar to most Americans. (Not the most common, that would be "check," but it...
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OK, points taken, but the only reason those came up is jgor's declaration that "tick off my boss" would most likely mean "check off my boss" in the US. I stand by my assertion that this would be a...
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I agree with that, but so does jgor. He said that "ticked off my boss" would mean angered, not checked off.
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> He said that "ticked off my boss" would mean angered, not checked off. No, he said that that would be (quote) "the second most obvious". After having just said that checked off would be the "most...
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No, he was talking about the term "tick off" in general, not just the usage in "tick off my boss."In American English, "tick off" has two common meanings. It can mean to check off (as in a list) or it...
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> No one was was referring to that until you brought it up, WG.I brought it up by saying it would be rare and contrived! Which is basically what you have just concluded, jgor detour...
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The sense of chiding someone by giving them a `dressing down' is used in Australia. The dressing down would usually be giving by someone in authority: a teacher to a student, a judge to a criminal or...
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That would mean bukkake where I come from.I'd recommend that folks NOT google on that term!!! wg did that to us once or twice before.[Lest Jim's warning spur curiousity, the term refers to a sexual...
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I've posted this before, but for our fresh crop of newbies:www.onelook.com is a handy site. It searches lots of online dictionaries all at once, and returns a Google-like page of links. In addition,...
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