>>>>>>There's often mention of US "Oversight Committees"
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>>>>>>I assume these are in order to oversee a process to ensure it's done properly (I've never heard the expression applied in British politics).
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>>>>>>But it sounds to me like a committee of forgetful old fuddy-duddies:
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>>>>>>"Oh forgive me for not having done such-and-such; it was an oversight on my part" :-)
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>>>>>>One for your English section, Dragan.
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>>>>>Added to the list - will be posted when I return home and merge the data.
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>>>>>BTW, one of my favo(u)rites is "I shoot her, I miss her". Is she alive after this sentence?
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>>>>O'wise one. Please explain "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth".
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>>>Oh, I know, I know! When buying a horse, you check its teeth. If someone gives you a horse, checking its teeth would be an insult. So, when you are given a gift, don't start checking it over as if you're trying to make sure you weren't cheated.
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>>Perfectly explained. Kudos. Explanations that good are line hens' teeth....
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>Thanks for the kudos, but I still want to know why
slow down and
slow up mean the same thing, and why there is no such expression as
speed down or
hurry down. Well, ok, there is hurry down, but it's got nothing to do with acceleration or deceleration, and it's usually
hurry on down anyway.
I've never heard "slow up". "Pull up" yes.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.