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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by pacaro on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:15PM (#20803299)
Or as they would say in Cambridge, "all mouth and no trousers"
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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by w4tson on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:50PM (#20803626)
Or as they say in Yorkshire: all fur coat and no knickers
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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by tzs on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:06PM (#20804256)
Apparently they would be more likely to say "all mouth and trousers", which is believed to be a corruption of the more logical but less commonly heard "all mouth and no trousers" [1].

[1] https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/19/messages/511.ht...

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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by blauekapelle on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:14AM (#20809762)
Never heard that saying once in Cambridge, lived here 20 yrs
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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by pacaro on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:26PM (#20824136)
Lol, well you must never have run into me either between 1990-93 or again 1999-2002
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