Oh, fer Kryssakes, Mate!

Twila

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RE: Oh, fer Kryssakes, Ma

I wonder how they'd have enforced it?
 

Twila

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RE: Oh, fer Kryssakes, Ma

Gad, PC run amok!

Have you noticed that amok can only move in a run? You can't walk amok or saunter amok. It has to run amok. And precisely what is amok?
 

Hard-Luck Henry

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Well, only if you were security Officer at Australia's Parliament House, and only if the decision hadn't already been reversed. Other than that, you're in big trouble. :p


Have you noticed that amok can only move in a run? You can't walk amok or saunter amok. It has to run amok. And precisely what is amok?

Is it an idiom, Twinkla? I should very well cocoa!

:lol: To saunter amok. I like that the spirit of understatement you've evoked there. How about "He ambled amok."

I might make a game of this. :p
 

Twila

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RE: Oh, fer Kryssakes, Ma

He ambled amok

I almost believe that it's possible to amble amok. Ambling invokes images of a rather disturbed rolling walk. Arms swinging wildly. balance barely maintained.


Upon some research of the word amok I've learned that it is possible to have 'went amuk'. Good thing I researched it to cause I've been misspelling it!

Turns out there are 7 entries for "amuk". Amazing!
 

NickFun

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RE: Oh, fer Kryssakes, Ma

Main Entry: gad·zooks
Pronunciation: gad-'züks, -'zuks
Function: interjection
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: perhaps from God's hooks, the nails of the Crucifixion
archaic -- used as a mild oath