"Nick Cramer" > wrote in message
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> "W. Baker" > wrote:
>> Ozgirl > wrote:
>> : "KROM" > wrote in message
>
>> : > 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.
>
>> : 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_def
>> : inition.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+m
>> : isery 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.
>>
>> Please don't let your hostility towards Susan so cloud your view that
>> you
>> misinterpret all of our reactions. It is simply one of those
>> langage
>> differences that come up every once in a while.
>
> <sigh> Sensitivity training would be good for many people, including
> me.
> Does FITH mean her brain is no good or she is a fellatrix?

I'd say it probably means my brain is FUBAR, but I am not a psychic so I
can't say for sure. Whatever, telling someone they are ****ed in the
head is pretty strong stuff.