As you probablee know English isn’t my mother tongue, so when writing up a comment here, I did the following search on Google to verify the accuracy of the term I was about to use:
search?q=”i’ll see your” “and raise you a”
A random pick of what people “see” and “raise you”:
- dead pigeon/piece of yarn
- waitress/pair of comfortable shoes
- Gender Essentialism/Social Construction
- Values/Girl Scout Cookie
- namedropping/hairstylist
- Karl Rove/Dick Durbin
- Mary Tyler Moore/Sophia Loren
Right. That’s enough coffee for you Barry.
I’ll see your Frank Zappa and raise you a Johnny Cash.
From…
http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=002046&p=
Since English isn’t my mother tongue, I hardly even know what this all means… :-)
Balint, from one non English mother tongued kind of a person to another: it’s like when you are playing poker, and somebody makes a stake, and you “see” what he has put, because you think you have good cards, and you “raise” the stakes. “I’ll see your *** and Raise you a xxx”.
I think. Sorta. Kinda. Bueller?
Ah so! Thönk yoü! :-)