Here is the weather forecast for the next five days with us. Cloudy today, rainy tomorrow, and then sunny for the next three, maximum temperature 23 degrees centigrade.
Centigrade is only one of the scales by which temperature is given.Farenheit is another but is being used less and less.
Less there, but more here, I'm afraid. Temp is given in centegrade as an aside, but Fahrenheit as a rule.
Rule me out!This is far too ridiculous a game for a man of my station to find himself involved in.
In this game you can be as ridiculous or serious as you'd like. We're all about freedom (of speech, that is!).
Is that so?Well how about the one about the...I better not.
Not too crude! We frown upon anything sick and wrong, misogynistic, etc.!
How high do frowns rate in free speech matters?etc.(Sorry)
Sorry seems to be the hardest word. In reply to your kind enquiry, I have been struggling to persuade a new computer system to fire on all cylinders- now up to steam, if you don't mind a mixed metaphor or two.
Two of a kind is a metaphor I can understand. Any more mixed ones?
Ones that I can think of include 'every dog has a silver lining', or perhaps that is more of a mixed saying. There are some interesting regional sayings, such as "Burr far, storm nar", where a burr is a ring round the moon, and nar = near.
Near is never enough near. Against would be better.
Better is relative. And my relative is better, so I shall not go to see her tomorrow.
Tomorrow is another day. What am I quoting?
Quoting Scarlet O'Hara, I believe, in Gone with the Wind. It's rather a fat book.
Book early to avoid disappointment, advice which often masks the advertisers' eagerness to disguise poor uptake on their offering. Anyway, the German language has an exact equivalent to that above, namely "Morgen ist noch ein Tag", or tomorrow is another day.
Day after day, I read those advertisements of which you speak, and very often used to be taken in by them. I'm particularly wary nowadays of any ad that offers 'peace of mind' since that is in my fee, nobody else's.
Elsie's a name which has fallen out of favour and fashion, as names sometimes do. One rarely meets an Algernon these days, for example. (Fondly remembering Pat Phoenix playing Elsie Tanner)
Tanner crabs (Chionoecetes bairdi) are very common species of crabs in Alaska. They are very tasteful.
Tasteful crabs, I like it. "The farther off from England, the nearer is to France" said the Walrus or the Carpenter, and that's where I would expect those tasteful crabs to be found.
