>>>Back in NJ, we always said we were "going down the shore" when you were going to the beach, even though in almost all cases it was east.
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>>Quick! Delete that before Dragan starts a language rant for next week on our dropping "to" from the expression! :-)
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>>FWIW in England one "goes down the pub", etc, too.
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>In addition to going down the shore, New Yorkers get "on line" instead of "in line" when they join a queue.
And when Sun Yat Sen's followers cut off their queue they were considered by the Mandarins to be out of line.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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