Re: Do you want a French "little" or a Dutch "little"? :))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 17:59 |
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At 17:13 2002-06-04 -0400, Nik Taylor wrote:
>I assume you're referring to the middle light. Here it's yellow, too,
>but "orange" is sometimes used (at least by some people I know) as a
>joking term for a light that has just recently become red, like, if
>someone drives thru a light that had just become red, someone might say
>"That light was a bit orange"
It is the same in Swedish, and I have had ample occasion to employ the
idiom, since my mother has a strong habit of driving thru the "orange" light...
/BP 8^)>
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