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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>>> "W. Baker" > wrote in message
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>>>> Ozgirl > wrote:
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>>>> : "KROM" > wrote in message
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>>>> : > sorry ozgirl but "put it out of its misery" has always meant to
>>>> kill
>>>> : > it here and I've heard it used in UK movies in the euthanize
>>>> context.
>>>> : >
>>>> : > put "what does put it out of its misery mean?" into a Google search
>>>> : > bar and see the result.
>>>> : >
>>>> : > its very easy to take something a person says wrong..so lets be
>>>> : > careful when taking a idiom wrong in others because we will
>>>> eventually
>>>> : > do it ourselves.
>>>> : >
>>>> : > KROM
>>>>
>>>> : In my country an ass is not a butt. Should I take Americans literally
>>>> : when they say ass? I accept what Americans use in that context, can
>>>> it
>>>> : be possible that Americans can accept different word/phrase usages
>>>> from
>>>> : others? Especially when the context was there, i.e. followed by a
>>>> list
>>>> : of possible ways to relieve said misery. Instead of a call of Ozgirl
>>>> : suggests I kill my cat! How about, Ozgirl, are you saying I should
>>>> kill
>>>> : my cat? Nope, kangaroo trial instead. Tolerance for differences at
>>>> its
>>>> : best, but yet... the phrase means more than just to kill even in
>>>> : America. Not my problem if people in here haven't experienced it. Not
>>>> my
>>>> : problem that people refuse to check it into properly. Google:
>>>> "define:
>>>> : put out of misery".
>>>>
>>>> :
>>>> "http://www.writersevents.com/Words_Starting_with_P/put_ones_foot_down_put_something_together/put_someone_or_something_out_of_their_misery_defin ition.html
>>>> : Idiom: put someone or something out of their misery
>>>> : To ****relieve them***** from their physical suffering or their
>>>> mental
>>>> : anguish.
>>>> : To kill (an animal that is in great pain)." (American)
>>>>
>>>> :
>>>> "http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/put-sb-out-of-their-misery
>>>> : to stop someone worrying, usually by giving them information that
>>>> they
>>>> : have been waiting for" (British)
>>>>
>>>> :
>>>> "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/put+someone+out+of+his+or+her+misery
>>>> : Kill a wounded or suffering animal or person, as in When a horse
>>>> breaks
>>>> : a leg, there is nothing to do but put it out of its misery . [Late
>>>> : 1700s]
>>>>
>>>> : End someone's feeling of suspense, as in Tell them who won the
>>>> : tournament; put them out of their misery . [c. 1920] *******Both
>>>> usages
>>>> : employ put out of in the sense of "extricate" or "free
>>>> from."********"
>>>> : (American)
>>>>
>>>> : http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+out+of+misery
>>>> : Put (one) out of (one's) misery
>>>> : 1. Euph. Fig. to kill someone as an act of mercy. Why doesn't the
>>>> doctor
>>>> : simply put her out of her misery? He took pills to put himself out of
>>>> : his misery.
>>>> : 2. Fig. to end a suspenseful situation for someone. Please, put me
>>>> out
>>>> : of misery; what happened? I put her out of her misery and told her
>>>> how
>>>> : the movie ended.
>>>> : See also: misery, out, put
>>>> : McGraw-Hill Dictionary of ****************American
>>>> Idioms*************
>>>> : and Phrasal Verbs. ? 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
>>>>
>>>> : Anyone still want to tell me the phase ONLY means to euthanise?
>>>>
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>> A number of us simultainiously were astounded to hear that there was
>>>> another meaning for a phrase we had all only heard s meaning to put
>>>> down
>>>> or wthenize n animal. We all wrote, pretty simlutaniously. When you
>>>> described tht to you it didn't mean that some of us , at leasi I, said
>>>> that in the US it was not such a meaning tht it had in oz. thant's
>>>> all.
>>>> When you sain put him out of his misery we had had an automatic
>>>> response.
>>>> Once we were told tht it was one of those bum , ass, knock up , kind of
>>>> differences between British based and American usages we could begin to
>>>> deal with it. Criticising us all and claiming dog iling, etc is rather
>>>> an overkill from the Aussies as it was totally new to us USAns that
>>>> there
>>>> was any other meaning.
>>>
>>> 1. I explained (starting at least a couple of days ago) about there
>>> being another meaning (with suggestions to check dictionaries and
>>> context) yet the posts still kept flowing in about it only having one
>>> meaning.
>>>
>>> 2. I haven't claimed dog piling at all. I defined (my own
>>> interpretation) of what dog piling means to me in another message. I do
>>> not feel dog piled.
>>>
>>> 3. This isn't a bum, arse difference at all because every American
>>> dictionary I have been able to see online thus far gives two meanings to
>>> the phrase (*without* saying the second meaning is more commonly a
>>> British phrase) so its more a "I haven't experienced it" moment which
>>> should mean the posts about it should have stopped long before now.
>>>
>>> 4. I have chosen to criticise anyone who has deliberately chosen to
>>> block that second meaning out of their heads (even after my requests to
>>> check out dictionaries and check context).
>>>
>>> 5. My aversion to a lot of things about Susan doesn't cloud my judgment.
>>> People choose to ignore or justify her bad behaviour. If one wants to
>>> take that stance then I enter into a debate with them also.
>>>
>>> 6. This is not simply a language difference (apart from the fact your
>>> dictionaries give two meanings also). If Susan says something derogatory
>>> a number of people jump to her defence claiming language difference or
>>> any other excuse. If I supposedly say something that could be a language
>>> difference issue I am crucified. Name one person in this thread that has
>>> said anything like oh Jan, I understand you meant no harm, we didn't
>>> realise that there was another meaning other than to euthanise an
>>> animal. No posts have had anything remotely sincere, all have said (bar
>>> one) that it means to kill. No acknowledgment of another meaning
>>> therefore no apology.
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>> I'm the one who claims dogpiling because that's how I see it.
>
> But you are really me!

Oh! Is that what my problem is? And all this time I thought I was just sad
and pathetic.