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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
"throw for toffee"
Hello,
could anybody explain what does expression "throw for toffee" mean?
Situation: two 10 year old Scottish boys chase each other and accidentally break a girl´s snowman. Girl is very angry and boys only shout: "Canny throw for toffee!"
Thanks a lot for your help!
could anybody explain what does expression "throw for toffee" mean?
Situation: two 10 year old Scottish boys chase each other and accidentally break a girl´s snowman. Girl is very angry and boys only shout: "Canny throw for toffee!"
Thanks a lot for your help!
Top answer
It's not 'throw for toffee' really. It's 'can't verb for toffee'. (Canny would be a spoken version of can't in some areas of Scotland).
- It's not 'throw for toffee' really.
- It's 'can't verb for toffee'.
- (Canny would be a spoken version of can't in some areas of Scotland).
- It means you are bad at doing whatever the verb is.
- ) at the boys in anger.
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It's not 'throw for toffee' really.
It's 'can't verb for toffee'. (Canny would be a spoken version of can't in some areas of Scotland). It means you are bad at doing whatever the verb is. So presumably the girl was also throwing or going to throw something (a snowball?) at the boys in anger.
The version I knew as a kid was 'can't verb for toffee nuts'.
It's just a sill
It's 'can't verb for toffee'. (Canny would be a spoken version of can't in some areas of Scotland). It means you are bad at doing whatever the verb is. So presumably the girl was also throwing or going to throw something (a snowball?) at the boys in anger.
The version I knew as a kid was 'can't verb for toffee nuts'.
It's just a sill
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