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posted October 19, 2016 08:57 AM
Just having watched Peter Sellers play many characters in the 1951 film "Let's Go Crazy" I read up on the Internet Movie Data Base and found one American reviewer who referred to one of the characters as milquetoast.
Having no idea of what the word meant Google gave me the answer as a person who was timid and meek. It derived from a 1924 U.S. comic strip.
Does anybody in America use this word in their daily vocabulary?
posted October 19, 2016 11:48 AM
This reminds of thosde great T-shirts from the 80's that say on them "I'm With Stupid" with a finger pointing to whoever is standing next to the person wearing the T-shirt.
Of course, there was one of those that said the same thing, and had the finger pointing straight up!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "