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Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	PollyinBrum	Report	27 Oct 2015 19:51
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	in last few days two friends have mentioned to me separately the same phrase. I wondered where these phrases started, so I looked it up in the Urban Dictionary "Suck it up" To cope with something unpleasant without complaint-usually because you have no choice. Now where do you think it originated from? :-S
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,048 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	27 Oct 2015 20:04
	US???????????
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,048 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	27 Oct 2015 20:04
	yep ..... just looked it up the US
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	27 Oct 2015 20:20
	It's an expression I've been hearing for a few years now here in Canada. I live on the border with US.
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	27 Oct 2015 21:06
	as has been said - hear it often on American TV programmes
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	PollyinBrum	Report	27 Oct 2015 21:13
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	Ann I don't watch much American TV :-D
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,048 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	27 Oct 2015 21:15
	well, the kids will have picked it up from the US shows, and then used it at home ........... phrases soon spread. As Margee said, we've been hearing it for several years here.
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	27 Oct 2015 21:32
	"threw him under the bus" is another - meaning roughly you let him take the wrap!!
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	PollyinBrum	Report	27 Oct 2015 21:46
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	It seems that I am.totally out of the zone.
Member Since: November 2011 Posts: 3,256 Send Message	Graham	Report	27 Oct 2015 22:05
	There's a few people I'd like to throw under a bus. Especially if it's travelling down the fast lane of the M5. :-D
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 7,330 Send Message	kandj	Report	27 Oct 2015 22:06
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 7,330 Send Message	PollyinBrum, you are not on your own. I don't watch any American TV and like you, "I am totally out of the zone" ???????????
Member Since: January 2008 Posts: 2,684 Send Message	Andysmum	Report	27 Oct 2015 22:10
	So am I!! I've never heard either of the above phrases.
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 669 Send Message	Sue	Report	27 Oct 2015 23:13
	Me neither. Doubt if I will be using them. Ugh. :-D
	Researching: Honey and all Jack Russells
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 2,736 Send Message	TessAkaBridgetTheFidget	Report	28 Oct 2015 00:34
	One that annoys me at the moment is ,"my bad". which I think means my mistake. or. I got it wrong. First read it in a book. (for teenagers ) by Kathy Reicha, author of the "Bones" books. It was said by a teenager to other teenagers in a bo9k written for teenagers (a few years ago). Now used by middle aged English people on zUK. TV. Trying to be " Hip" ?!!
	Researching: Woodhouse and Trilloe from Herefordshire; Lockyear and Date from Somerset, Thomas and Edwards from Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, also Argyll, Tipperary, Limerick, Cork
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,048 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	28 Oct 2015 03:08
	It also goes the other way, of course .............. the English saying "don't get your knickers in a knot" doesn't go down too well over here :-D
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	PollyinBrum	Report	28 Oct 2015 07:35
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	I don't use that phrase either Sylvia :-D
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	28 Oct 2015 10:04
	Don't get your knickers in a twist - we'd only use that amongst immediate family. It's usually if they are having a rant about an outsider or some task that's going wrong. :-D "I can't be arsed" is another one the younger generation use. Surely it should be Asked as in Can't be bothered? :-S
	Researching: Dormant member as from 20 Sep 2019 . Click on my board name to send a message
Member Since: November 2011 Posts: 3,256 Send Message	Graham	Report	28 Oct 2015 11:19
	"Can't be arsed" means "can't be bothered to get off ones arse" ;-)
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	28 Oct 2015 11:35
	Now it makes sense! Thanks Graham :-D
	Researching: Dormant member as from 20 Sep 2019 . Click on my board name to send a message
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	PollyinBrum	Report	28 Oct 2015 12:28
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	Graham I never knew that, I think I must still be in the dark ages.

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