Re: How do I transcribe this?

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:09:35 GMT

Ruud Harmsen wrote:
>
> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:28:05 +0200: Aki Moilanen <akmoilan@paju.oulu.fi>:
> in sci.lang:
>
> >Hey! I resent that.
> >(Do you know the idiom "full of it"?)
>
> Rings a bell, but please explain. Is it like 'fed up with it', 'I've
> had enough'?

No. "It" in that expression is a euphemism for "***" (a word that is
far more offensive in the US than it is in Europe).

Cf. "Up the creek without a paddle," where "the" is a euphemism for the
same word. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net