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"Five is 'right out' " BrE
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Gus
Aug 9, 2013, 8:46:29 AM8/9/13
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In The Holy Grail, when they are talking about the holy hand grenade
there is this line:
Brother Maynard: Three is the number thou shalt count, and the number of
the counting shall be three. Four thou shalt not count, neither count
thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
I don't know what "right out" means exactly but from context US
audiences got that it means "five is too many" "a bad choice". Do I
have that right?
there is this line:
Brother Maynard: Three is the number thou shalt count, and the number of
the counting shall be three. Four thou shalt not count, neither count
thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
I don't know what "right out" means exactly but from context US
audiences got that it means "five is too many" "a bad choice". Do I
have that right?
Leslie Danks
Aug 9, 2013, 9:41:16 AM8/9/13
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forbidden", etc.
--
Les (BrE)
I never promised you a rose, Garden.
CDB
Aug 9, 2013, 9:57:31 AM8/9/13
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of styles from High Anglican to modern colloquial.
Gus
Aug 9, 2013, 12:15:28 PM8/9/13
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"CDB" <belle...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I remember seeing the movie in the theater, and even though subtle
things like that were entirely lost on Americans, people were rolling in
the aisles.
news:ku2sgc$jp2$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
things like that were entirely lost on Americans, people were rolling in
the aisles.
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Joy Beeson
Aug 10, 2013, 6:45:47 PM8/10/13
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:46:29 -0400, "Gus" <gus.o...@geemail.com>
wrote:
> I don't know what "right out" means exactly but from context US
> audiences got that it means "five is too many" "a bad choice". Do I
> have that right?
That's British? I don't remember not having "right out" as part of my
vocabulary. I read it as "out of the question -- way, way, out: far
beyond any hope of being anywhere near the question."
Perhaps I read British children's books.
(Mom got most of my early reading at what we now call estate sales. It
was eclectic)
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some Northern Indiana, Upstate New York, Florida, and Hawaii
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wrote:
> I don't know what "right out" means exactly but from context US
> audiences got that it means "five is too many" "a bad choice". Do I
> have that right?
vocabulary. I read it as "out of the question -- way, way, out: far
beyond any hope of being anywhere near the question."
Perhaps I read British children's books.
(Mom got most of my early reading at what we now call estate sales. It
was eclectic)
--
Joy Beeson, U.S.A., mostly central Hoosier,
some Northern Indiana, Upstate New York, Florida, and Hawaii
joy beeson at comcast dot net http://www.debeeson.net/joy/
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
Peter T. Daniels
Aug 11, 2013, 8:05:23 AM8/11/13
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On Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:45:47 PM UTC-4, Joy Beeson wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:46:29 -0400, "Gus" <gus.o...@geemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I don't know what "right out" means exactly but from context US
> > audiences got that it means "five is too many" "a bad choice". Do I
> > have that right?
>
> That's British? I don't remember not having "right out" as part of my
> vocabulary. I read it as "out of the question -- way, way, out: far
> beyond any hope of being anywhere near the question."
>
> Perhaps I read British children's books.
>
> (Mom got most of my early reading at what we now call estate sales. It
> was eclectic)
It's the intensifier "right" that's British -- "out of the question"
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:46:29 -0400, "Gus" <gus.o...@geemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I don't know what "right out" means exactly but from context US
> > audiences got that it means "five is too many" "a bad choice". Do I
> > have that right?
>
> That's British? I don't remember not having "right out" as part of my
> vocabulary. I read it as "out of the question -- way, way, out: far
> beyond any hope of being anywhere near the question."
>
> Perhaps I read British children's books.
>
> (Mom got most of my early reading at what we now call estate sales. It
> was eclectic)
is normal English.
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