I learned the dangers of slang the hard way on my first US visit as an adult. It was a business trip to Raleigh, NC. Someone went out for a cigarette; when asked where they’d gone, I replied they’d “nipped out to smoke a fag”, a perfectly normal phrase in British English…
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I learned the dangers of slang the hard way on my first US visit as an adult. It was a business trip to Raleigh, NC. Someone went out for a cigarette; when asked where they’d gone, I replied they’d “nipped out to smoke a fag”, a perfectly normal phrase in British English…