redfiona99: (Thinking)
redfiona99 ([personal profile] redfiona99) wrote2013-11-15 09:32 pm

Quick Ameri-Pick

Would an average now-era American know what "cupboard love" is? Would anyone know who isn't my Grandmother use that expression?

[identity profile] pyroyale.livejournal.com 2013-11-16 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
I just had to google what that meant...

[identity profile] redfiona99.livejournal.com 2013-11-16 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not a good sign. Thanks. There's a certain time-shift in my vocab, and I have to remember that I learnt a lot of mine from someone who was brought up in the 1920s.