
Originally Posted by
The Wizard of BC
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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