Re: Crystal Palace - Why do they keep turning the signal up and down like that?

Ian Jackson wrote:

In message <f659qp$vdc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bill Wright
<insertmybusinessname@xxxxxxx> writes

I think this is what my mother used to call "cutting of your nose to
spite your face".

We often use that expression, to the confusion of a French girl who was once
staying here.

The meaning should be pretty obvious. You try explaining 'the bees'
knees'!

The equivalent phrase of dragged through a hedge backwards in french
is a badly combed bear.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"
.

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