flog/ drive/ whip/ foist on/ palm off

[vil]

Hi Offroad,

You should have to see the glaring difference between your pull someone's leg andmy drive a hard bargain.

V.

[birdeen's call]

Hi Offroad,

You should have to see the glaring difference between your pull someone's leg andmy drive a hard bargain.

V.

Vil, I think you have no reason to be so hard with Offroad. He or she (I hate this expression...) has a valid point. You can say "drive a hard bargain", but it doesn't mean that you can put anything in the place of "hard bargain" in this expression. It's just the same with "pull someone's leg". You can't say "pull someone's arm" or "pull someone's head". It's not idiomatic.

I hope I understood Offroad well.

[Offroad]

Vil, I think you have no reason to be so hard with Offroad. He or she (I hate this expression...) has a valid point. You can say "drive a hard bargain", but it doesn't mean that you can put anything in the place of "hard bargain" in this expression. It's just the same with "pull someone's leg". You can't say "pull someone's arm" or "pull someone's head". It's not idiomatic.

I hope I understood Offroad well.

Yes, you did. That's exactly my point.

And you can call me Marcio, I just like extreme sports. And... I know, still, what 'drive a hard bargain' means.

Always learning from your threads, Vil.

[birdeen's call]

Yes, you did. That's exactly my point.

And you can call me Marcio, I just like extreme sports. And... I know, still, what 'drive a hard bargain' means.

Always learning from your threads, Vil.

OK, Marcio, I will remember

[vil]

Hi birdeen’s call,

Your showy incarnation in the part of the good Samaritan has reverential effect on me. I know, I have no right to exceed the bounds of the good manners. I’m sorry to have told to offroad the biting words in question. They were spoken when I played the wrong card with my aggressive defence of my thesis concerning the forcing my ideas upon others regarding the unaccustomed meaning of the flog = drive = Brit .; colloq . to sell something quickly or cheap. Sometimes twice two is not four and twice three is not six.

That all was not what I meant when I said it.

Thank you for your meddling.

V.

[birdeen's call]

OK, I see. Sorry about meddling.

[vil]

If I say meddling, I lay particle stress on the positive connotation. For example as the meddling of Dr. House.

V.