I love James Ellroy, right? L.A. Confidential, all that jazz.
Item: An early morning snafu put the kibosh on breakfast.
Item: I had two eat 'n' greets in the afternoon within an hour of each other.
Item: I decided to call the first E'n'G breakfast.
"Call the first one breakfast". Today, I realised I use phrases like that a lot. "Call it a late lunch", "Call it payback for the other thing", "Call them a latter day Buddy Holly with distortion."
I have been using "Call it, them, etc." for the last fifteen years without realising where I'd picked it up.
That ever happened to you, that you'd picked up a phrase or even a mannerism from a book or a film or a tv show without really realising it?
For example: How many people do you know who say "Anyway..." or "Okay..." in a high pitch to denote incredulity? Those sayings, and I mean specifically the way they're spoken, didn't exist in Ireland before the tv show Friends.
Item: An early morning snafu put the kibosh on breakfast.
Item: I had two eat 'n' greets in the afternoon within an hour of each other.
Item: I decided to call the first E'n'G breakfast.
"Call the first one breakfast". Today, I realised I use phrases like that a lot. "Call it a late lunch", "Call it payback for the other thing", "Call them a latter day Buddy Holly with distortion."
I have been using "Call it, them, etc." for the last fifteen years without realising where I'd picked it up.
That ever happened to you, that you'd picked up a phrase or even a mannerism from a book or a film or a tv show without really realising it?
For example: How many people do you know who say "Anyway..." or "Okay..." in a high pitch to denote incredulity? Those sayings, and I mean specifically the way they're spoken, didn't exist in Ireland before the tv show Friends.
