Thursday, February 17, 2011
quicko: bells on
I feel like it's taken me a bit longer than necessary to recognize this as an Australian/British expression, but it's really rather prevalent here: "I'll be there with bells on." It's in reply to an invitation -- generally to a party -- and I think is fairly understandable to Americans, just not something we'd think to say, unless of course we were ride-a-cock-horsing to Banbury Cross.
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Actually, we use this here in the U.S. sometimes. At least I know I do, and your Grandma does. So that probably means your aunts and uncle do, too, plus the eight cousins they represent, so it is actually rather well-spread here, at least in Ohio.
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