[lit-ideas] Re: A phrase you never heard before
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:03:39 +0900
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:38 AM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:34 PM, John McCreery wrote:
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>> Ruth suddenly says,
>>
>> "You weren't upskirting your Daoist master."
>>
>> I know what she's saying. Do you?
>>
>> I assume the construction comes from "upstaging." But somehow it has to
> connect to "ripping off." No, I don't know what it means.
Speranza's dictionary is closer, but still behind the times. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upskirt
John
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