"My postillion has been struck by lightning", "our postillion has been struck by lightning", and other variations on the same pattern, are often given...
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Postilion (redirect from Postillion)
postillon de Lonjumeau, an 1836 French comic opera by Adolphe Adam. "My postillion has been struck by lightning". A comical phrase supposedly found in old-fashioned...
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La plume de ma tante (phrase) (redirect from The quill of my aunt)
woman only to have her reply: "La plume de ma tante". My postillion has been struck by lightning Richard V. Teschner; Eston Earl Evans (15 May 2007). Analyzing...
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Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook (redirect from My hovercraft is full of eels)
[citation needed] My postillion has been struck by lightning How a Portuguese-to-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation, by Tucker Leighty-Phillips...
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Starting with a first volume A Postillion Struck by Lightning (an allusion to the phrase My postillion has been struck by lightning), he wrote a series of 15...
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Japp "my personal copy of 'The English as She Should be Spoken.'" Engrish, broken English common among Asian learners My postillion has been struck by lightning...
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languages. It became an Internet meme. My hovercraft is full of eels My postillion has been struck by lightning Finegan, Edward (2004). Language: its structure...
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Phrase book (category Dictionaries by type)
unwittingly incompetent translation. The expression "My postillion has been struck by lightning", supposedly included in some phrasebooks, is used to...
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