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Name A Literary American Quote No Brit Would Ever Understand And Vise-Versa For The Yanks

My choices -

Roger Angell's "Willie Mays' glove is where triples go to die".........No Brit is going to know what the fuck this dude is talking about.

Conversely no true American red, white and blue through and through is going to understand Evelyn Waugh's : 'I never imaged I'd end up on queer street with a sticky handful of spotted dick."

by Anonymousreply 8July 10, 2025 5:09 AM

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy. ==== clueless to Brits

by Anonymousreply 1July 9, 2025 11:24 PM

[quote]Vise-Versa

Oh, dear.

by Anonymousreply 2July 10, 2025 12:27 AM

Barf out- gross me out the door!

by Anonymousreply 3July 10, 2025 12:36 AM

Cecil Vyse

by Anonymousreply 4July 10, 2025 12:42 AM

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

by Anonymousreply 5July 10, 2025 2:49 AM

Many Americans get that, R5.

by Anonymousreply 6July 10, 2025 3:29 AM

Brits! translate "I never imaged I'd end up on queer street with a sticky handful of spotted dick." into Americana=ese

by Anonymousreply 7July 10, 2025 5:08 AM

Cecil Vyse or Edelweiss?

by Anonymousreply 8July 10, 2025 5:09 AM
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