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    Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC View Post
    David, will you please clarify your statement "ie from what I have seen, Barb T takes a bit of beating for quality of work & finished kilt."
    Your sentence seems to me to be saying that there has been some dissatisfaction from someone with a Tewksbury kilt.
    Not "takes a bit of a beating."

    What David means, I am certain, is that you'd have to work pretty hard to "beat" Barb T. Thus, takes a bit of beating. That form of expression, if not the literal words, is a pretty common British usage.

    Two---pardon me, three---nations divided by a common language, indeed.
    Ken Sallenger - apprentice kiltmaker, journeyman curmudgeon,
    gainfully unemployed systems programmer

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    Quote Originally Posted by fluter View Post
    Not "takes a bit of a beating."

    What David means, I am certain, is that you'd have to work pretty hard to "beat" Barb T. Thus, takes a bit of beating. That form of expression, if not the literal words, is a pretty common British usage.

    Two---pardon me, three---nations divided by a common language, indeed.
    As a UK-ite, that's how I'd parse it too. To my (English) ears, there's actually a complement in David's gentle understatement. I'd read 'XX takes a bit of beating' as 'It would be very hard indeed, if not impossible, to better or outdo XX ..'

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