Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:52:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How Odd . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Elspeth Kovar wrote:

> I was about to send this off to my brother, who has horses, when I vaguely
> remembered some Brit or another referring to their horse having 'bombed' at
> a show.  Probably when I was quite young as I haven't been around
> horse-owning Brits since then, and I may be wrong, but it fits.

In British English "bombed" does mean "made a spectacular hit" rather
than, as in Yankspeak, "flopped dismally".

-- Dick Eney