"Rutherford, David" wrote:

> It seems that you're "confused".
>
> Confusion being the meaning of the phrase.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
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>                 Subject:        Off Topic: English Idiom
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>                 I'm reading a book by an Anglican minister and he uses a
> phrase
>                 that I'm not familiar with.  I'm hoping that one of the
> English
>                 (as in "from England") readers of this list can help me
> understand
>                 it.
>
>                 He refers to people as "being at sixes and sevens with
> themselves".
>                 What does that mean?
>
>                 Thanks for any illumination you can provide.
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And Australia, being a land forged by the members of the 'old dart' also understand the expression.

Shane.



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