Slang, or something?

[petertsui]

Do these phrases sound familiar to you?

Holy smoke!
Holy mackerel!
Holy cow!

Just a note:

I started the topic a few minutes ago, but it didn't seem to show up anywhere here. So I did it again. :shock:

 

[A.Russell]

Do these phrases sound familiar to you?

Holy smoke!
Holy mackerel!
Holy cow!
[\quote]

They are familiar to any fans of the old Batman TV series :wink: . Check it out if you don't know what I'm talking about. It was a funny series.

 

[petertsui]

Thanks for your info. I did watch a number of episodes of the TV series when I was a kid. As I was not that good in English back then, I didn't pay too much attention to the dialogues in there.

By the way, it's one of my teachers, presumably a Canadian, who used these phrases interchangeably from to time.

 

[Tdol]

Kerpow! ;-)

 

[petertsui]

Sorry, tdol, but what's "Kerpow"? Don't have any idea at all.

 

[rocos]

I can't understand that!

 

[Tdol]

In the Btaman TV series, they would flash words like 'Kerpow' on the screen when Batman hit a villain.;-)