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Old 15-Nov-2006, 14:50
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Default Re: 'It's to laugh at!'

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'It's to <verb>', as a description, is not very common. We usually put an object in there: 'It's nothing to laugh at', 'It's something to think about'... A recent exception has been creeping into the informal language over the last few years: I think it started life as a translation (incomplete, at that) of the French à en mourrir:


Have you seen that dress at H&M - it's to die for.


But this is by no means standard; you'd see it in Cosmopolitan (a trendy magazine) but not in Time magazine.

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