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Should have or should of?

36 replies

HeyJude07 · 16/10/2008 15:12

Because I have no idea.

Sorry if this has been done before.

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Habbibu · 16/10/2008 21:15

You can fight it out with the OED, then, po...

pofaced · 16/10/2008 21:18

Seriously? Do they say it's slang? But they're the uptight, humourless, pofaced types on that programme off of the telly, innit?

Habbibu · 16/10/2008 21:20

Indeed they do: Slang phr. to be fed up: to be surfeited or disgusted (with), bored or tired to breaking-point. So fed-up a. Also with emphasizing expressions, as fed to the (back) teeth, fed to death. Also without up. I could not possibly comment on their humour levels.

One man's slang is another man's idiom, I guess...

pofaced · 16/10/2008 21:22

Maybe it is slang if your normal way of speaking is to say I'm surfeited with lampreys...

Habbibu · 16/10/2008 21:23

And you don't??!!

Habbibu · 16/10/2008 21:24
pofaced · 16/10/2008 21:28

Henry I died of "a surfeit of lampreys"...

Habbibu · 16/10/2008 21:29

Oh, blee: A fish of the genus Petromyzon, resembling an eel in shape and in having no scales. It has a mouth like a sucker, pouch-like gills, seven spiracles or apertures on each side of the head, and a fistula or opening on the top of the head.

Should think that just looking at one would be surfeit enough. I wonder how many he ate?

pofaced · 16/10/2008 21:55

obviously not so many that he got fed up of 'em... but a surfeit nevertheless... maybe we could help oed?

pofaced · 16/10/2008 21:55

obviously not so many that he got fed up of 'em... but a surfeit nevertheless... maybe we could help oed?

pofaced · 16/10/2008 21:55

do you think this is a surfeit of posts or are you fed up yet?

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