'Don't panic!' I said to myself as I tipped dirty water over a clean floor. 'Think of the Chinese.'
But why? Are the Chinese people particularly renowned for not panicking? Or is it a saying I have misremembered, misheard or made up myself?
By the time I had pondered these things I had cleaned up the mess without panicking. So it works.
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On a similar but slightly different topic, why is it that the cream I use to bleach my ... ahem ... 'facial hair' takes ten minutes to do an inefficient job on my face yet instantly bleaches the carpet?
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All families have odd phrases that have become embedded ... my aunts all say someone's 'haddy-looking' when he's a bit gormless , but why they say that someone dim looks like a smoked fish , Heaven knows.
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