A Spanish friend of mine believed for many years that if she wasn’t able to do something it was polite to say “I can’t be asked”, as so many of her English colleagues used this term liberally. She was rather chastened when someone told her what they had actually been saying…
I grew up believing that Eric Clapton was singing about croquet.
‘If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues … croquet’!
I still hold the game in my mind as a sort of panacea …
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A Spanish friend of mine believed for many years that if she wasn’t able to do something it was polite to say “I can’t be asked”, as so many of her English colleagues used this term liberally. She was rather chastened when someone told her what they had actually been saying…
I grew up believing that Eric Clapton was singing about croquet.
‘If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues … croquet’!
I still hold the game in my mind as a sort of panacea …