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  1. Yee-Ming

    Sayings or statements that don't make sense

    Or Chel$ki, as they're now known... :D With the new ex-Soviet ownership, will this sentiment change in future? After all, a single home-ticket at the Bridge these days must cost at least 50 quid.
  2. Yee-Ming

    Sayings or statements that don't make sense

    Waaaaa, "catch no ball". Which is a local saying, directly translated from the local vernacular (hence it's grammatically unsound).
  3. Yee-Ming

    Sayings or statements that don't make sense

    Is it just me, or has "I got your back" rather than the marginally longer "I'll watch your back" become more common recently? I seem to have noticed "I got your back" or variations thereof very often: last night I was watching Boston Public and Steven Harper said it to a teacher (IIRC...
  4. Yee-Ming

    Sayings or statements that don't make sense

    Absolutely. When studying Chinese in school, we were required to study these proverbs, most of which are exactly 4 words/characters long. They are usually a very elegant and concise way of conveying a particular situation or circumstance. In the same way, many English sayings do too, although...
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