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meaning of "taper off" Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:23 pm  meaning of "taper off"
 

Hi,

Does You should taper off on the firewater mean you should slow down on the firewater ?

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meaning of "taper off" Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:49 pm  meaning of "taper off"
 

I guess you know the meaning of "firewater", right? Laughing

Generally speaking, "taper off" refers to a gradual stop, whereas "slow down" simply means the speed or rate of consumption is reduced (but not necessarily stopped).
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meaning of "taper off" Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:53 pm  meaning of "taper off"
 

Hi, Amy

Many thanks !

Yankee wrote:
I guess you know the meaning of "firewater", right? Laughing
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Of course. We have exactly the same word (olny we write it separatly - fire water) in Russian. Smile
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meaning of "taper off" Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:28 am  meaning of "taper off"
 

lost_soul wrote:
Of course. We have exactly the same word (olny we write it separatly - fire water) in Russian. Smile

It's probably in Russian translations of novels by Karl May, that famous author of a massive number of tomes about the Wild West, who had never set foot in the United States. After he had finally taken a trip here, he stopped writing about America and began writing about the Middle East, a place where he also had probably not been.

When Americans go to Germany, the Czech Republic or Slovakia, many people there are amazed that we don't know anything about those stories or their characters. It would be like me expecting any German to know everything about The Katzenjammer Kids, an ancient American comic strip about German immigrants.
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