by Sean McIlroy <sean_mcilroy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Dec 15, 2007 at 02:14 PM
On Dec 14, 4:10 am, Nomen Nescio <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Sean McIlroy <sean_mcil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > hi all
>
> > i heard this phrase for the first time on the news the other day, and
> > like an idiot i looked it up in the dictionary instead of listening to
> > the rest of the story. is it more-or-less equivalent to "reading
> > someone the riot act"? thanks for any insight you can offer.
>
> Don't get it mixed up with "coup de semence" which
> is a technical term in ****o movies.
good one
