Answers to Funny Things
Trip Start
May 16, 2008
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Trip End
Jul 26, 2008
Arusha, Tanzania
Friday, June 6, 2008
Sam's sayings:
1. Have a touch on your bag = Hold your bags close.
2. Be jealous of your bag = Watch out for your bag (so no one steals it).
3. We are summarizing.= We're almost done. (He says this about dinner a lot).
4. Let's throw our legs very fast! = Hurry up, let's walk faster!
5. Show some strokes! = Get on the dance floor and bust a move!
6. It's as if he's peeked into your pants... = He is very nosy.
7. I need to go for a short call. = I need to use the bathroom & I hope it won't take long.
(I have yet to hear anyone announce the need to go for a long call. I think I'll try it out just for fun).
8. Is your wallet smiling? = Do you have enough money?
9. I've almost made an unexpected landing! = I almost stepped in a pile of something I really didn't want to step in!
Ruth, my host mom, also says some funny things:
1. I saw a cloud but I dont ever know when it will work. = I saw a cloud but I can't tell if it will rain.
2. (At the table) Please pass me the mingling stick. = Please pass me the stirring spoon.
Comments
About those sayings . . . .
I didn't do too badly on them, but I never quite figured out the 'summarizing' one or the 'peeked into your pants' one. I hope you can share some more of these with us. I know we use lots of idioms here that probably sound just as strange to people for whom English is a second language.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Love, Meemaw
Answers to funny things
Well, I was correct on most of them. I can't wait to hear more. May your wallet always be smiling! Pop
Answers to funny sayings
Hi Megan,
I sat down earlier at the computer and read your latest comments. Had been cleaning house all morning so too tired to get my thoughts together. Gramps was at church doing his usual volunteer work on our new mission building.We really enjoyed the sayings and the suprising answers.Some were not at all like I had imagined. We love you and miss you. Gramps and Grammy
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yea i didnt get any... but i see them now. Guess thats why you are there and not me! haha miss ya