In article <0cuiu3lrfo0bmcvej6uodnhjru9h6c9u1l@4ax.com>,
Hatunen wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:48:52 -0500, erilar
> wrote:
>
> >In article ,
> > Alfred Molon wrote:
> >
> >> In article , erilar
> >> says...
> >>
> >> > No, I prefer to travel in countries where women don't have to suck up to
> >> > men to survive.
> >>
> >> What does it mean "women have to suck up to men to survive" ? Apologies
> >> for my poor English skills.
> >
> >You probably don't understand because you consider this the natural
> >order of things. I've have enough of you PLONK
>
> Be kind here; "suck up" is basically an American idiom.
I spent too many years with teenagers; every once in a while one of
their idioms strikes me as appropriate.
--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)
You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov
Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo
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