A to Z of words & phrases we didn't use 2 years ago
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Original post by A Rolling Stone
actually Furlough has been used for years in the US, but had actually gone extinct in the UK - it was only used back in the days of WWII
No - people I knoe were furloughed in the 2000s!
Original post by NJA
Hancock's half hour
explain? i was literally just talking about this as being something no one under the age of 40 would have heard of
Original post by A Rolling Stone
explain? i was literally just talking about this as being something no one under the age of 40 would have heard of
A forgotten thing for the over 40s who probably heard their parents listening to it but when Hancock started appearing for about half an hour every day the memory resurfaced and the phrase returned to the vernacular
Original post by NJA
A forgotten thing for the over 40s who probably heard their parents listening to it but when Hancock started appearing for about half an hour every day the memory resurfaced and the phrase returned to the vernacular
how old are you? and have you seen The Rebel? genuinely one of the top 5 funniest films I've ever seen, and virtually no one seems to have heard of it!
Original post by A Rolling Stone
how old are you? and have you seen The Rebel? genuinely one of the top 5 funniest films I've ever seen, and virtually no one seems to have heard of it!
56, covid survivor and no, but will put it on my bucket list.
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Original post by NJA
Can you give details?
Another example is in The Patriot, Colonials are offered furlough for enlisting, but most people were not familiar with the word.
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Another example is in The Patriot, Colonials are offered furlough for enlisting, but most people were not familiar with the word.
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'On furlough' was routinely used in the army for someone given leave of absence in the 19th century but I don't think 'furloughed' was.
Original post by NJA
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