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 #2 (permalink) Tue Feb 23, 2010 18:55 pm let it rip? |
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This I found on "Wiktionary:
Once we have the tank full we will back away and you can let her rip.
"let her rip" means "let us go on" or "let it go", i think.
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Bergdeutscher
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| #3 (permalink) Tue Feb 23, 2010 19:35 pm let it rip? |
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hiiii frnd
may be u r right, but i'm little bid confuse. will u plzz explain this??????
thanxx
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Feb 23, 2010 20:31 pm let it rip? |
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It means, "Go like the clappers!" Give it all you've got!
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| #5 (permalink) Tue Feb 23, 2010 21:01 pm let it rip? |
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| Ah, learning a little bit again. Thanks. |
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| #6 (permalink) Wed Feb 24, 2010 13:07 pm let it rip? |
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| Kitosdad wrote: |
| It means, "Go like the clappers!" Give it all you've got! |
I like the use of a very obscure idiom to explain a less obscure idiom. ;-)
"Let her rip," can mean, "Give it all you've got," as Kitosdad says, or sometimes it can mean to let a machine or something else go into operation. The implication is always that the person or machine works very hard or fast.
So if someone tells a driver, "Let her rip," that means to press the fuel pedal down as hard as you can and really drive fast. If someone tells that to a worker, it means either, "Do your best work at your fastest speed," or, "Turn the machine on and let it go at full speed." |
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| #7 (permalink) Wed Feb 24, 2010 14:50 pm let it rip? |
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hello
so anyone plzz tell me the difference between "let it rip" & "let her rip" & what does "her" stand for???
thanx jamie |
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| #8 (permalink) Wed Feb 24, 2010 19:06 pm let it rip? |
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| Yogita wrote: |
hello
so anyone plzz tell me the difference between "let it rip" & "let her rip" & what does "her" stand for???
thanx jamie |
Yogita, first please write in English. Don't write "plzz", "u" and things like that. Write in your best English.
In this expression, "her" stands for the same thing as "it". Sometimes in slang we use "her" instead of "it" for cars, boats, machines, and sometimes for nothing at all. |
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