Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Last Doctor Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho Subject: Re: Google Gemini reviews Doctor Who - The 2 Doctors Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 06:20:14 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:20:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0d8723130bafba54f78280ddc0fd9e60"; logging-data="3418080"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4qzHID5XseuVlUAW1oZy3" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d65Z6u4AHOfI7Hn5FvJJXmb8Usc= sha1:AZ4/I+9efD9rOI6YX27ltCw1gdg= Bytes: 2394 Blueshirt wrote: > Daniel70 wrote: > >> The Doctor wrote on 3/9/24 12:02 am: >>> In article , Daniel70 >>> 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