[Buddha-l] Time to call it a day?
Erik Hoogcarspel
jehms at xs4all.nl
Sun May 16 12:35:49 MDT 2010
Op 16-5-2010 18:15, JKirkpatrick schreef:
> "Time to call it a day" is idiomatic speech for ending
> something.....draws from an old pop song from the 30s (?)--
> (Gary), and an older idiom (Richard). So whatever "it" is or was
> it is not being "called day".
>
Thanks Joanna, for clearing that up. To be sure I was well aware of
this, but I cannot resist from time to time to stretch the philologicals
especially when the subject is calling names and labels and stuff.
Erik
also called 洪恩锐
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