Hello everyone, can you please tell me how popular the idiom “I’m in the pink” is? I mean, how often would native speaker use it nowadays? Many thanks, Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]
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I wouldn’t say it was ‘popular’ among younger speakers, but it is common and easily understood. I think it would tend to be the older generation (so that’s me then) who would actually use it with any regularity.
Thanks Bev for this, now I know that I can use it as often as I like :-)[YSaerTTEW443543]
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Hi Torsten,
This is the expression you’ll often find in the pages of the books by my favourite comic writer, P G Wodehouse. For some reason I always think of the song ‘Lily the Pink’. when I hear the expression although it’s not really connected to the phrase. But anyway it’s worth playing a pop version by the Scaffold, a group I had the pleasure of meeting in the 1960s when I worked for a friend of mine in his ESL school in London. The one on the left is Paul Mcartney’s younger brother and the one on the right is the popular poet. Roger McGough. I hope you enjoy it -
Hi Alan, yes that’s quite a song. So, ‘medicinal compound’ refers to the beverage Lydia Pinkham invented and promoted, right?[YSaerTTEW443543]
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