From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V1 #85 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Monday, December 16 2002 Volume 01 : Number 085 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 05:05:26 -0500 From: "Illumina" Subject: Re: seven-seas-digest V1 #84 Actually, Amy, you've got the distinction pegged! Your clarification of "the bottom drawer" was superb. I'm accustomed to the tradition/theory/upbringing of the "hope chest." Hello All! Supremely, Illumina 'Listening to "Lowdown" at 5am in her parents' house..." - ----- Original Message ----- From: "seven-seas-digest" To: Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 4:10 AM Subject: seven-seas-digest V1 #84 > > seven-seas-digest Sunday, December 15 2002 Volume 01 : Number 084 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:05:55 -0600 (CST) > From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) > Subject: seven-seas Cutter lyric > > I was reading through yet-another-Brit-to-Yank-speak guide > online and it defined "bottom drawer" as "hope chest" in > Yank speak. I went, hmmmmmmm.... > > A hope chest in American English was a chest in which a girl > placed her finest sewing -- tablecloths, sheets, quilts -- > in order to use when she (hopefully) got married. It can > also mean a wooden (usually cedar) chest holding one's > finest clothing or bedding. > > Is that the meaning there? Because it changes "what's > in the bottom drawer" significantly -- here, one stuffs > what one hardly uses in the bottom drawer of a chest > of drawers (rarely used cos it's a pain to bend over > and get it) -- or perhaps the heaviest objects to > keep the drawers from tipping over. > > I obviously have too much time on my hands, but that > all ends tomorrow :-) when we add a puppy to our > family. > > - --Amy > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== > > ------------------------------ > > End of seven-seas-digest V1 #84 > ******************************* ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V1 #85 *******************************