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To: Tupelo

Football- soccer

Nipping off- taking a little time off from another task

The pitch- the sports field

To ring-to make a phone call

Scream down- speak loudly at the other end of


10 posted on 11/15/2014 4:01:09 AM PST by Eepsy
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To: Eepsy; All
*snickering!/*

English/English..
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English/American Dutch/Penn.
English/American Yankees..
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English/footballer..
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..it's a wonder, we can understand each other. 😉

*/Snickering!*


15 posted on 11/15/2014 4:26:05 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: Eepsy

Nipping off also means simply to make a physical movement to another place.

ie ‘I am nipping down to the shops’ OR ‘I am nipping down to the bottom of the garden’.


37 posted on 11/15/2014 11:25:40 AM PST by the scotsman (UK)
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