Re: Ransome expressions, when is aphrase not a phrase?


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Posted by andyb on March 25, 2006 at 12:09:09 from 81.131.90.210 user beardbiter.

In Reply to: Re: Ransome expressions, but across the pond...? posted by Kathy_S on March 25, 2006 at 02:03:21:

"So and back, so and back" I can't say that I've ever heard it as a phrase; it seems to me the sort of words one might "naturally" use to describe some sorts of rhythmical actions, such as a small boat making slow progress up a narrow waterway against the wind.
The AR expression I'm currently most struck with is "as cross as two sticks" which appears in the little essay about how AR wrote SA that someone (Jock?) kindly posted a little while ago. This strikes me as a traditional saying although I don't remember hearing it before. It reminds me of the slightly "Dordor-ish" style AR used in his letters to his daughter, a little self-consciously aimed at children. I think one of AR's strengths as a children's writer is that he doesn't write down to them.



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