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Sep. 16th, 2006 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astralis"I'm fed up!" observed Evadne one day, shortly after Mr Denny had made his debut at the Chalet School. "I think Gisela is right-down mean!"
"Why!" demanded Margia, who was sitting on the top of her desk, swinging her legs. "What's she done to you?"
"Fined me!"
"Oh! Why? Was it slang?"
"You know real well it was! I think she's a... a rubber-necked four flusher!" From Jo at the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, chapter nine.
I love that while EBD had Madge and the prefects condemning slang, I learn all sorts of fun new phrases from her books. I've learned from google that rubber-neck means to "look about or survey with unsophisticated wonderment or curiosity" and a four-flusher is "a pretentious person; fraud; bluffer". I'm not likely to go around calling people rubber-necked four flushers, but I shall think it on appropriate occasions.
"Why!" demanded Margia, who was sitting on the top of her desk, swinging her legs. "What's she done to you?"
"Fined me!"
"Oh! Why? Was it slang?"
"You know real well it was! I think she's a... a rubber-necked four flusher!" From Jo at the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, chapter nine.
I love that while EBD had Madge and the prefects condemning slang, I learn all sorts of fun new phrases from her books. I've learned from google that rubber-neck means to "look about or survey with unsophisticated wonderment or curiosity" and a four-flusher is "a pretentious person; fraud; bluffer". I'm not likely to go around calling people rubber-necked four flushers, but I shall think it on appropriate occasions.
