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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Weird phrase
There is this moment in one movie: a guy comes up a woman putting her belongings into a car's baggage compartment and says: "Hardly a bowler bird". I cannot get my head round what that means, any ideas?
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He can extol himself for having pulled off his would-be-doings with her. Bird is an informal British slang for "young boy". And bowler man can mean "being asinine" (notice, it can be offensive to label someone with that).
- He can extol himself for having pulled off his would-be-doings with her.
- Bird is an informal British slang for "young boy".
- And bowler man can mean "being asinine" (notice, it can be offensive to label someone with that).
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He can extol himself for having pulled off his would-be-doings with her. Bird is an informal British slang for "young boy". And bowler man can mean "being asinine" (notice, it can be offensive to label someone with that).
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Hi,
There is this moment in one movie: a guy comes up a woman putting her belongings into a car's baggage compartment and says: "Hardly a bowler bird". I cannot get my head round what that means, any ideas? I've no idea what this means. My first reaction is to think that you must have misheard what he said. Are you absolutely positive?
What was the movie called?
There is this moment in one movie: a guy comes up a woman putting her belongings into a car's baggage compartment and says: "Hardly a bowler bird". I cannot get my head round what that means, any ideas? I've no idea what this means. My first reaction is to think that you must have misheard what he said. Are you absolutely positive?
What was the movie called?
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CliveHe can extol himself for having pulled off his would-be-doings with her.I may have used it rather ignorantly. I just guessed. He could have praised himself in hope of having sexual affairs with her.
CliveBird is an informal British slang forOops."young boy". girl, young woman
Cli
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Hi, thanks for replies - some more tips on that: this is an australian movie "Paperback Hero", and the guy who told this phrase was very upset at the moment, forseeing his inevitable parting with his girlfriend (that very girl who he told this to).
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Hi,
There's an Australian bird called 'a bower bird'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird
But I have no idea if that is what the guy in the movie said, or why he would say it.
Perhaps because she was leaving home, w
There's an Australian bird called 'a bower bird'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird
But I have no idea if that is what the guy in the movie said, or why he would say it.
Perhaps because she was leaving home, w
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