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Subject:Re: "Cut the Crap" and all that French From:Mike Mcgraw <mcgraw -at- BROOKTREE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 21 Apr 1994 09:45:19 -0700
> Since when have people considered "cut the crap" to be an obscenity?
You're right, Beth. I suspect what we're dealing with here is really
Parisian French. Maybe Susan Fowler will check her dictionary for the
real meaning of this phrase. :*) Just keeding....