Den torsdag 11. juni 2015 skrev Davide DB <[email protected]> følgende:

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> Ok you bought me.
> >
> > BTW - English idioms... "you bought me" means that I paid you money to do
> > something. To change your mind, to provide services, etc. I think you
> > might mean "you sold me on this", as in "I convinced you of my opinion".
> > :-D
>
> Ouch!!!
> Sorry, the important thing is that you understood me
>

Even better, I've seen it used as a synonym for "killed" (from "bought the
farm" [1]). Stop killing people, Dirk ;)

Henrik

[1] http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bought_the_farm
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