A wooden disk printed: TUIT
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Mathematics And Statistics
ebohlman said,
16 July 2008 at 23:46
Shouldn’t that be “now you’ve got one…”? The phrasing of idioms is important…
David Andrews M. Ed. (Distinction) said,
17 July 2008 at 1:29
a round tuit
(around to it) :P
andrea said,
17 July 2008 at 1:45
“have got”? nah …
“Now you got one, so do it!”
All better now?
andrea
Maddy said,
17 July 2008 at 2:37
How bizarre [and timely] I found two wooden discs by the recycling cart after the rubbish men had been this morning. Now I know what to do with them! Anyone want my spare?
Cheers
Anna said,
17 July 2008 at 3:33
I’ve had this button explained to me so many times, but I *still* have to sit and figure it out. For some reason my brain comes up with a long i, so it comes out sounding “to eat” instead of “to it”… I was so born to the wrong language.
lori said,
17 July 2008 at 20:11
hahahaha :) I had no idea what it was until I read David’s comment. If I ever get one, I will have about a bazillion things to do!
Andrea Shettle, MSW said,
18 July 2008 at 11:05
I think the first time I was introduced to one of these things was when I was in elementary school, except it was in paper form (instead of wooden), and it had some text on the back explaining that now “you have a round tuit” so now you can do all the things you said you’d do when you “get a round tuit.”
My Mom had to explain both the sound-based pun (because I’m deaf) and also the contextual situation in which people often say “around to it” (because I was young enough I guess I hadn’t yet really been exposed to the idiomatic phrase “around to it”; being deaf probably didn’t help because that’s the kind of phrase you hear more often in casual conversation rather than in formal writing, so I had fewer opportunities for casual exposure to that type of language.)
qw88nb88 said,
18 July 2008 at 13:28
Andrea,
As you can see, even some hearing people trip over this pun! Idioms are difficult for many people.
me
Ryan Potter said,
20 November 2010 at 4:54
I found a wooden round tuit but it has Minden Neb on the other side