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Side Issue: do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"? I'd have thought it'd been dollar. And what exactly is a po-dunk school when it's at home?
by Graham24 13y ago
Side Issue: do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"? I'd have thought it'd been dollar.
And what exactly is a po-dunk school when it's at home?
- erichocean 13y ago> do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"? Yes.
- api 13y ago(1) Yes (2) A po-dunk school is any school not on the coasts and not in the top ten, possibly excluding a small number of top-tier schools in "flyover country." (*) Flyover country is the large area you fly over when traveling between, say, Boston and San Francisco.
- mindcrime 13y agodo Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"? Absolutely.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"? Yes, as well as the similarly anglocentric (but somewhat oppposite in perspective) aphorism: "Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves."