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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010I feel a ... coming up!
Hi, I really like the English expression "I feel a ... coming up!" It amuses me whenever I hear somebody using it. What variations are common? ("song", "rhyme", what else?) Is it usually meant seriously or does it always contain irony? Regards Jens Gruß Jens On Feb 15, 1:19 pm, Jens Kleinschmidt <fox_zzn...@trashmail.net> wrote: > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Gruß > Jens Not "I feel a ... coming on"? >Not "I feel a ... coming on"? Maybe. Google also prefers your version. Regards Jens > On Feb 15, 1:19 pm, Jens Kleinschmidt <fox_zzn...@trashmail.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Not "I feel a ... coming on"? "On" for a song, "up" for a belch.  SignatureLes (BrE) >> On Feb 15, 1:19 pm, Jens Kleinschmidt <fox_zzn...@trashmail.net> >> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >>> What variations are common? ("song", "rhyme", what else?) Is it >>> usually meant seriously or does it always contain irony? >> Not "I feel a ... coming on"? > > "On" for a song, "up" for a belch. Surely the ambiguity is part of the point? Signature--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Kraft durch Schadenfreude. :|| > Hi, > I really like the English expression > "I feel a ... coming up!" > It amuses me whenever I hear somebody using it. I would normally say "coming on" rather than "up". So I feel this e-mail coming on! > What variations are common? ("song", "rhyme", what else?) > Is it usually meant seriously or does it always contain irony? Usually light-hearted rather than serious or ironic. With best wishes, Peter. SignaturePeter Young, (BrE, RP), Consultant Anaesthetist, 1975-2004. (US equivalent: Certified Anesthesiologist) Cheltenham and Gloucester, UK. Now happily retired. http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk >> Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Peter. "Pull my finger". SignatureFrank ess >>> Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >"Pull my finger". I dig it, Frank. SignatureRobin (BrE) Herts, England Jens Kleinschmidt: > I really like the English expression > > "I feel a ... coming up!" Perhaps you would also like the correct expression, "coming on". > What variations are common? ("song", "rhyme", what else?) > Is it usually meant seriously or does it always contain irony? Its basic meaning refers to an illness. "My throat feels sore -- I think I have a cold coming on." Anything else would be jocular. (Not exactly ironic; comparing a song to an illness is not irony.) SignatureMark Brader "Metal urgy. The urge to use metals. Toronto That was humans, all right." msb@vex.net -- Terry Pratchett: Truckers >Jens Kleinschmidt: >> I really like the English expression [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Its basic meaning refers to an illness. "My throat feels sore -- >I think I have a cold coming on." Anything else would be jocular. That is often true, although "I feel an idea coming on" has become so mundane, I wouldn't call it jocular. SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs, An American who lives near Dublin, Ireland and usually spells in BrE Mark Brader filted: >Jens Kleinschmidt: >> I really like the English expression [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >I think I have a cold coming on." Anything else would be jocular. >(Not exactly ironic; comparing a song to an illness is not irony.) Lissauer's Encyclopedia of Popular Music in America may have the explanation for why the "correct expression" seems so familiar: _I Feel a Song Comin' On_. w. Dorothy Fields and George Oppenheimer, m. Jimmy McHugh, 1935. Introduced by Harry Barris, Frances Langford, Alice Faye, and Patsy Kelly in (MM) _Every Night at Eight_ and reprised, in a melancholy manner, by Alice Faye. Among early recordings: Frances Langford (Brunswick); Paul Whiteman, vocal by Ramona (Victor); Johnny "Scat" Davis (Decca); Frank Dailey's Orchestra (Bluebird). It was heard in (MM) _Follow the Boys_, 1944. It was interpolated by Ann Miller and chorus in (TM) _Sugar Babies_, 1980. For many years, the song was a favorite of nightclub performers who used it as an "opener." ....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > What variations are common? ("song", "rhyme", what else?) Chicken Korma and 4-pack of Cherry WKD. DC -- >> Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > DC I saw a list of upcoming events the other day, but those two weren't on it. SignatureRegards John for mail: my initials plus a u e at tpg dot com dot au |
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