Hi Helen, <quote who="Helen Faulkner">
> 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. Thankyou, I hadn't got around to clearing that up :) Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "Is kneeling a criteria for talking to you?" - Philip Lindsay to Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
