Re: RARA-AVIS: zebra crossings/UK noir

From: John Williams ( johnwilliams@ntlworld.com)
Date: 12 Jun 2002


From: "Buzz" > Incidently, I believe a punter to be a willing and uninformed customer, a
> fool all too eager to give his money away.
>
Yes, though Carrie is right too - the original sense is of a gambler (one who takes a punt) but it tends to be used just to mean customer or consumer.

Oh and plonk is cheap wine (while 'plonker' means an idiot)

John

--
# To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
# majordomo@icomm.ca.  This will not work for the digest version.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 12 Jun 2002 EDT