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apprentice
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:13 am
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What does up-and-at'em mean?
it's taken from a horoscope.
Pawel from Warsaw, Poland
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:04 am
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At 22:13:40 on Thu, 24 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in
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| Quote: | What does up-and-at'em mean?
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<http://www.answers.com/topic/up-and-at-em>
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Molly Mockford
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apprentice
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:09 am
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Uzytkownik "Molly Mockford" <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> napisal w
wiadomosci news:LBQK8di1bkhDFwfF@molly.mockford...
Thanks a lot. I used www.onelook.com and after a while got bored with it.
Next time answers.com
Thx a lot!!!
Pawel
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Molly Mockford
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safety
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:17 am
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At 00:09:53 on Fri, 25 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in
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| Quote: | Thanks a lot. I used www.onelook.com and after a while got bored with it.
Next time answers.com
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Next time I recommend google.co.uk, set to look at UK sites only. That's
what I used to find that link.
Of course, it's possible you may have problems accessing google.co.uk -
it might try and force you to the pl version - I don't know. But I have
successfully used google.co.nz and google.co.fr in the past.
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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John Briggs
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:31 am
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Molly Mockford wrote:
| Quote: | At 00:09:53 on Fri, 25 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in
3c321$4386484a$d4ba586d$20189@news.chello.pl>:
Thanks a lot. I used www.onelook.com and after a while got bored
with it. Next time answers.com
Next time I recommend google.co.uk, set to look at UK sites only.
That's what I used to find that link.
Of course, it's possible you may have problems accessing google.co.uk
- it might try and force you to the pl version - I don't know. But I
have successfully used google.co.nz and google.co.fr in the past.
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You were insufficiently precise. The phrase is usually thought to be
derived from "Up, Guards, and at 'em" - allegedly the command given by the
Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Many years later the Duke
denied it: 'What I must have said and possibly did say was, Stand up,
Guards! and then gave the commanding officers the order to attack.'
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:09 am
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At 23:31:31 on Thu, 24 Nov 2005, John Briggs <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com>
wrote in <n3shf.2959$xP2.911@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>:
| Quote: | have successfully used google.co.nz and google.co.fr in the past.
You were insufficiently precise. The phrase is usually thought to be
derived from "Up, Guards, and at 'em" - allegedly the command given by the
Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Many years later the Duke
denied it: 'What I must have said and possibly did say was, Stand up,
Guards! and then gave the commanding officers the order to attack.'
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Google finds that too -
<http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/11/messages/689.html>. My
point was to direct Pawel to Google for the basic meaning of idioms like
this, so that his requests to the group for help relate more to usage,
where we are (I hope) better equipped to assist than Google.
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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Dave Fawthrop
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:00 am
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:09:55 +0000, Molly Mockford
<nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> wrote:
| At 23:31:31 on Thu, 24 Nov 2005, John Briggs <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com>
| wrote in <n3shf.2959$xP2.911@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>:
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| >>have successfully used google.co.nz and google.co.fr in the past.
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| >You were insufficiently precise. The phrase is usually thought to be
| >derived from "Up, Guards, and at 'em" - allegedly the command given by the
| >Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Many years later the Duke
| >denied it: 'What I must have said and possibly did say was, Stand up,
| >Guards! and then gave the commanding officers the order to attack.'
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| Google finds that too -
| <http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/11/messages/689.html>. My
| point was to direct Pawel to Google for the basic meaning of idioms like
| this, so that his requests to the group for help relate more to usage,
| where we are (I hope) better equipped to assist than Google.
I use Google or google.co.uk searching only uk sites, for the meaning of
words.
The search term "word" Definition, gives a long list of links, giving many
definitions of "word".
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Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk>
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John of Aix
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:24 am
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John Briggs wrote:
| Quote: | Molly Mockford wrote:
At 00:09:53 on Fri, 25 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote
in <3c321$4386484a$d4ba586d$20189@news.chello.pl>:
Thanks a lot. I used www.onelook.com and after a while got bored
with it. Next time answers.com
Next time I recommend google.co.uk, set to look at UK sites only.
That's what I used to find that link.
Of course, it's possible you may have problems accessing google.co.uk
- it might try and force you to the pl version - I don't know. But I
have successfully used google.co.nz and google.co.fr in the past.
You were insufficiently precise. The phrase is usually thought to be
derived from "Up, Guards, and at 'em" - allegedly the command given
by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Many years
later the Duke denied it: 'What I must have said and possibly did
say was, Stand up, Guards! and then gave the commanding officers the
order to attack.'
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