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Wed 7 Jun, 2006 01:45 am
Hi....Yesterday,we have listened to a piece of commentary about sports.I'M rather confused about the phrase--"take a drumming".Anybody who knows sth about it,please......
I think you mean "take a drubbing". It means to lose by a large score.
Dear Wilso,
Thank you for your repy :wink: I'm sorry to tell you that it is "take a drumming".But your repy helped me learn another new phase.You never heard "take a drumming"before?
Take a drumming is not a phrase I am familiar with either.
dadpad wrote:Take a drumming is not a phrase I am familiar with either.
Nope, I never heard of it either. And we're talking about sports here. Something that Australians are very well versed in. It's almost an obsession here.
It's not "take a beating?"
good point blacksmith.
Beating and drumming have a similar intent.
mks6891 A drum is a kind of musical instrument
when we play a drum we are said to be drumming.
It could also be said we are "beating" a drum
So beating may have been translated incorrectly into drumming.
I assumed they were listening to an english commentary.
My dear friends,maybe you're right.Maybe there's sth wrong with the listening materials I listened to.I'll find it out later
mks6891 when you write "sth" I know you mean something. "sth" is poor english writing for something. youe should write the whole word.
Sth. is an abreviation for "south" which is a compass direction.
.......Nth.
west.......East
......Sth.
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