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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Google Gemini reviews Doctor Who - The 2 Doctors
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 06:20:14 -0000 (UTC)
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Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
> Daniel70 wrote:
> 
>> The Doctor wrote on 3/9/24 12:02 am:
>>> In article <vb42pj$2cufc$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel70
>>> <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> WOW!! Talk about "Cut me to the Quick", Gobble-de-gook!!
>>> 
>>> Cut me to the Quick?  What sort of Aussieism is that?
>> 
>> Nothing, Gobble-de-gook!!
>> 
>> https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cut+to+the+quick
>> 
>> The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
>> Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust.
>> Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
> 
> Americanisms shouldn't count... especially ones from the 1960's
> that normal people don't use in 2024!!!
> 

It’s not an Americanism. Or an Australianism. It’s an English saying of
great antiquity. Quick means living (Old English “cwic”) as in the other
well-known saying “the quick and the dead”. “Cut to the quick” means to
hurt very deeply - and I’ve heard it used, but not often or by anyone under
40ish unless they were performing an older work.

-- 
“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor