Posted by dorayme on 12/22/64 11:24

> From: Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl>
>
> The huh? was cause I didn't know how you thought he'd got me. But
> indeed, can't argue with a Mother :-)
>
> I'd explain the 'got you' in this context as 'got you cornered' rather
> than 'scored a point' though ;-)
>

It is an English idiomatic thing, the Brits and the Aussies
and even the Yanks say it. At the start of the Faulkland's
war during which Britain sent a fleet to retake the
Falkland islands from the Argentinians, a British sub sank
an Argentinian cruiser (called I think, the "Belgrano")
with hundreds of servicemen perishing. One of the British
"gutter press" dailies screamed a headline afterwards:
"GOTCHA!" Unpleasant context, but the point is about the
idiomatic use...

(btw, if I may say, if you are not a native English
speaker, you are most accomplished. You would be appalled
at my Dutch!)

dorayme

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