On Wed, 13 May 2009, Chris Samuel wrote:


----- "Mark Hahn" <h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote:

sorry, but could you decode this 'hiding' thing?  spanking?

Ahh, didn't realise it was a UK'ism! :-)

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/on-a-hiding-to-nothing.html

There.  I've learned something today.  Time to start drinking.

   rgb

Robert G. Brown                        http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
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