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Reminds me of an exchange visit my friend Christine went on as a student. During her stay she went round with a group of French students, doing her best to pick up the language and eagerly adopting colloqialisms and all. She'd noticed that when it was a particularly cold day, people would shiver and mutter a phrase which she interpreted as meaning 'bit nippy to-day, innit?' or something of that ilk. So she started saying the phrase herself, to general guffaws. It was only on her last day that they told her it meant, 'My God, I am frozen to the balls'.
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