[LINK] Expiring English Terms Leaving Every Day Usage

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Tue May 10 19:52:02 AEST 2011


>On 2011/May/10, at 7:10 PM, Tom Koltai wrote:
>>  The Phone's off the hook .

'Someone's tied down the phone'.

'Why *do* they say 'dial someone up'?'.
(Actually, I don't think 'they' do any more ...).


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