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Re: Off Topic: English Idiom
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"Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Johnson, Tracy
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Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:30:20 +0100
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Odd, the same phrase was sung by the Evita
character in: "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".

"... sixes and sevens with you.  Don't cry for me Argentina..."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Therm-O-Link [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

> 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?

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