Thread: Hallowe'en

What does your dictionary say about pun , shy one?

tonya, maybe you didn't suggest, but I realized I was. I thought that Halloween had always been a common British - American tradition, possibly with some local differences (like a couple of other things, apart from the language). So, I looked up wiki, and it looks like it's relatively new in the UK: Introduction to the UK Before the 1980s, the North American phrase "trick-or-treat" was little known in the UK and when...

I wound up some Thai mates. They don't get it at all so I told them that its the day that Christians can summon Demons from Hell to wreak havoc on their enemies. I then, after the Man Utd game, dressed in a towel, put a load of talc on my face and began to summon them Demons from Hell. My gaff emptied sharpish!

It's November now :) Halloween was good in NZ but quiet. The Zombie Walk was apparently quite popular. I don't think it walked up the steps of parliament though (which it did in previous years).

"baited breath" - not really. What were you using as bait ? Polo mints ? It should be bated breath meaning reduced or lessened. Similar etymology to abate as in noise abatement.