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    Default Re: Come on in!

    Quote Originally Posted by AlexAD View Post
    Don't be angry with me, I didn't mean to annoy you
    You didn't.
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    Default Re: Come on in!

    No, thiiiis not the place for them.
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    Default Re: Come on in!

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    There is a popular TV show in the United States where the host looks at the studio audience

    and then yells to one particular person in the audience:

    Come on down! (Leave your seat and join me up here on the stage)

    I guess it's more enthusiastic than simply "Come down here."
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    Default Re: Come on in!

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    There is a popular TV show in the United States where the host looks at the studio audience

    and then yells to one particular person in the audience:

    Come on down! (Leave your seat and join me up here on the stage)

    I guess it's more enthusiastic than simply "Come down here."
    Is that "The Price is Right"? Wow. I didn't realise that was still going anywhere in the world. I think it stopped in the UK in the late 1980s. There was one memorable clip where the host (Leslie Crowther) beckoned a young lady down to the stage with the words "Come on down!" and as she skipped down the stairs, her top - a boob tube - slipped down revealing a part of her anatomy that I imagine she didn't plan to broadcast on national TV!
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    Default Re: Come on in!

    Quote Originally Posted by emsr2d2 View Post
    the host (Leslie Crowther) beckoned a young lady down to the stage with the words "Come on down!" and as she skipped down the stairs, her top - a boob tube -
    Hmmm... I think in AmE that might sound mildly offensive Here, we call it a "tube top". "The boob tube" is strictly reserved for a TV set/bad TV shows. (I assume from boob: a stupid awkward person - source.)
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    Default Re: Come on in!

    Quote Originally Posted by AlexAD View Post
    I take you, 5jj. I am sure that is a right approach to the business.
    Just wasn't able to contain myself

    P.S. Thanks for correcting my mistakes in the post above.

    P.P.S. Don't be angry with me, I didn't mean to annoy you

    You mean, "I get you, 5jj."

    "I can take you" is something you say when you want to start a fight.
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    Default Re: Come on in!

    Yes, I meant, 'I get/understand you' or 'I take your point'.
    I thought I saw 'I take you' meaning the same among the examples given in the OALD.
    But can't find it anymore. Apparently, I confused something.

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