"My word you really do spit the dummy old chap" has made my day. It is a delightful example of a perhaps not quite current Australian idiom---'spit the dummy' for 'have a[n infantile] tantrum'---embedded in a mock British-English dialect reminiscent of the language of Colonel Blimp in Sir David Low's eponymous, circa-1934 cartoons.
Still, the combination is original. Low, a New Zealander, would have known but would never have used 'spit the dummy'. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
