Who?

[vonjon]

who got off with women because he couldn't get on with them?

[Captain2]

Ian Fleming - apparently

[Captain2]

English is an immensely complicated language to get right, and native speakers often have no idea of its strangeness. We understand the sentence “I can’t put up with the guy I’m putting up at my house, his put-downs really put me out and I’m feeling put-upon”. Or “I’m doing up my house and it’s doing me in.” Literally, that should mean “I’m performing my house skywards and it’s performing me towards the interior”. These are called phrasal verbs and they are the nightmare of every would-be English speaker. Somebody once said of Ian Fleming that he got off with women because he couldn’t get on with them. To us that’s a simple joke, to a learner who also has to get through, get by, get down, get with it, get up… it does their head in.

[Tilly2]

Really?

[Captain2]

^^^ That is a C&P of course - not me being verbose. ;0)))

[Tilly2]

Just joshing,Capt. :-)

[vonjon]

thank you