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Old 27-08-2012, 10:58   #689
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Re: Old local expressions

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
Apologies, if already mentiioned.

'Camp' - chat/informal talk.

Overheard yesterday.

'They were all camping ten to the dozen, I couldn't hear myself think.'

It is only used for informal chatting.

You would have 'a good camp', with an old friend you hadn't seen in a long while.

You wouldn't do it in a formal interview.

Well not if you wanted the job.

Used in our family to refer to the sort of chat you had with someone if you bumped into them in the street - "they were camping in the middle of the pavement, you couldn't get past".
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