A friend of mine was basically incapable of saying "get a word in edgeways" without following it with "like a fish-slice".
That just shows how terribly well-educated your friend is. I too say that. In fact, in my family the way to get people to be quiet if you have something important to say and can't get a word in is to shout "fishslice".
What are asparagus tongs, anyway ? How do they differ from other tongs ? Even this website (http://www.replacements.com/piecetype/flat_piece.htm), which provides ten pages of increasingly bizarre specialist cutlery doesn't mention them.
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Date: 2006-09-27 10:11 pm (UTC)That just shows how terribly well-educated your friend is. I too say that. In fact, in my family the way to get people to be quiet if you have something important to say and can't get a word in is to shout "fishslice".
What are asparagus tongs, anyway ? How do they differ from other tongs ? Even this website (http://www.replacements.com/piecetype/flat_piece.htm), which provides ten pages of increasingly bizarre specialist cutlery doesn't mention them.