I'm pleased it tickled you! I give you +1 for perfectly picking the
bidialectal twist ;-) .
On 10/10/2013 2:59 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
"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
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