Re: French
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 12:37 |
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The idiom is "out *in* the cold", not "out *of* the cold". As in,
locked out of the nice warm house and trapped outside in the cold
weather. One imagines someone with their face pressed against the
glass of a window, watching the warm people inside by the fireplace...
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Erbrice <erbrice@...> wrote:
> Thank you... that's right I felt out of the cold for one day or two...
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> Le 21 janv. 09 à 00:52, Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets a écrit :
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>> 2009/1/21 Erbrice <erbrice@...>
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>>> could you explain "out in the cold" ?
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>>>
>> It just means "exclu" as in "se sentir exclu".
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>> --
>> Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets.
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http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com/
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http://www.christophoronomicon.nl/
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