Re: "Gobsmacked"...

[b-evans@earthlink.net]

Wm. Severin Thompson wrote:

>While you're at it, Guy, can you explain the origin of one of my favorites... 
>"gobsmacked"?
>
Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Bertrand Russell have all 
been credited with saying that England and America are two great nations 
separated only by a common language.  You can add to "fanny", "fag", and 
"pants" the term "knackered", for it is something that we have all 
experienced.  ("Knackered" is to be beat, wiped out, tired, exhausted, 
etc.) 

Buster Evans