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From: wpl@burdvax.UUCP (William Loftus)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Sayings
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Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 19:24:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 19:24:25 1985
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Hello

  I few years ago I had a girl friend who learned Cantonese and
English as she was growing up; neither language was her first language.
She had two sayings that I never heard before:

 1) That's the thing.
 2) Close the lights (meaning -- turn off the lights).

Does anyone have a good explanation of where these sayings came from?
Are they used in any other part of the country or in other countries?

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