Seesul´s lingual corner

Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules

This Iowa countryside is some beautiful land for farming. The land is real black and these farmers have a corn patch for every cotton patch that we have back home. They have the nicest homes and more big barns and outhouses than Carter has liver pills.

Which Carter does the author mean?
 
In the late 1800s, up until about the 1960s, there was a drug (medicine) called "Carters Little Liver Pills". It was used to treat headaches and general pains, like aspirin. Because it was so heavily advertised and well known, it was assumed that they had a lot of them.

So that phrase was meant as a way of comparing the number of items with Carters Liver Pills, meaning there were a lot of what they compare it with. It is a more creative way of saying that there were a lot of barns and outhouses in Iowa.
 

Many thanks Eric for your perfect explanation! I just finished the translation of the article and am going to send it to the publisher...
Thx again for the help of all of you.

I just decided to make a Cambridge First Certificate in English. It´s a 2 years long course that is finished by the examination. The examination is accepted in whole European Union. I think it would be a shame not to use this chance because I love English but never learned it at school.
So it´s gonna be hard course but I just feel I need it...
Cambridge ESOL: First Certificate in English (FCE)
 
Since I'm not native English speaker sometimes I have difficulty with understanding some abbreviations which I encounter from time to time on the forum.

Correct me if I'm wrong:
IMO = in my opinion
lol = lots of laughs
LMAO = ?

I would like to know what LMAO means.
Thanks.
 
LOL=Laughing out loud
LMAO=Laughing my a$$ off.
ROFL=Rolling on the floor laughing

Tally Ho is what is stated when another aircraft is sighted. I have seen it used when forming up into a formation too. Two aircraft go out, then another two in pair that form up on the first pair. As the second element spots the lead element, they will often say 'Tally Ho'.

Tally Ho is attributed to an old English phrase used in fox hunting and the term was used when a fox was spotted.

Dead stick landing refers to an airplane landing without engine power.
 
In this case, it means Theater of Operations, so
PTO Pacific Theater of Operations
MTO Mediterranean Theater of Operations
ETO European Theater of Operations
and so on.

There are a ton of other things TO can mean, depending on the context of the conversation.
 
Thanks Dave!

Here´a small example- Duran Duran- Come undone View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiHk3PVmfVY

Nine immaculate dream made breath and skin
I've been waiting for you
Signed with a home tattoo
happy birthday to you
Was created for you

Can't ever keep from falling apart
At the seams
Can I believe you're taking my heart
To pieces
Oh It'll take a little time
Might take a little crime
To come undone now
We'll try to stay blind
to the hope and fear outside
Hey child stay wilder
than the wind and blow me in to cry

Who do you need?
Who do you love?
When you come undone

Meaning?
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)

Similar threads

M
Japanese to English translation of a Senshi Sosho table?
Replies
15
Views
2K
mack8
M
Question sur le vol des AF I-16 républicains espagnols vers la France ?
Replies
9
Views
1K
nuuumannn
V
Saben que avión es este?
Replies
1
Views
856
Wurger
Koreans begin to see their history as it is.
2 3 4
Replies
64
Views
8K
Shinpachi
A
can someone help me please?
Replies
11
Views
2K
Wurger
Menu
Log in
Register