> In case anyone else is wondering (it is a fairly colloquial phrase), to "tell > off the crowd for locking women out" means to "criticise the crowd for > excluding > women from their activities". > > to tell someone off means to criticise or verbally punish them (eg "I told my > son off for not doing his homework earlier") > > to lock someone out, in this context, means to prevent them from joining in > the > activity - think the analogy of locking girls out of the boy's clubhouse, or > something like that.
Hmmmmm, sounds like very good stuff to put here or there and make people think that I'm actually fully fluent in English...for at least 2 minutes, until they discover that I speak it "like a Spanish cow" (typical French expression for saying one speaks a language pretty badly) I also like this "colloquial" word a lot.... Bubulle, in Spanish cow mode, after being a Dancing Ape at Debconf5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
