The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168241 Message #4064385
Posted By: Mr Red
16-Jul-20 - 04:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
spotting in Gloucestershire.
See you on 2020/8/24
On the plus side, wouldn't the rain wash a lot of COVID covered surfaces? Not kill, but descend.
On a pedantic note: kill may not be biologically accurate but nobody complains when the slogan is kill your speed which is an invocation to reduce not eliminate. So why do we trouble with the word in the COVID context when the attempt is to reduce to zero?
Idiomatic language?