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Thread #131842   Message #2981804
Posted By: Anne Lister
07-Sep-10 - 04:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Phrases that don't travel
Subject: RE: BS: Phrases that don't travel
Rapaire, the word "tramp" as used here in the UK is the usual word for a person of no fixed abode as you describe ...but can be used to describe a walk. So there's an old, old response to "I went for a tramp in the woods" with the old chestnut "Why, what did he do to you?"