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Re: Between two stools/chairs
Posted By: Travholt, on host 193.69.109.2
Date: Friday, September 28, 2001, at 02:06:17
In Reply To: Re: Moving on posted by wintermute on Friday, September 28, 2001, at 01:32:43:

> > > Also, I feel that it has dropped between two stools (I hope that's an expression in English, too).
> >
> > If it is an expression in English, too, I haven't heard it. Are there any other expressions that mean the same?
> >
> Not known in British English either, but it sounds great. I'm going to start using this in conversations now, I think.
>
> winter"If only I was sure of its meaning"mute

I suppose you can use "chairs", too, but I think "stools" sounds better, besides, it sounds more like the Norwegian version. Anyway, it means that whatever dropped between the two stools couldn't decide where to sit and therefore failed to sit anywhere in particular at all. (Well, on the floor, obviously, but that's not very comfy, is it?)

I don't know if there's another English expression for the same thing, though...

Trav"sitting in his office chair"holt

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