speaking

/speak•ing/

n. 1 That's something I do understand: a chap who goes out of his way to tread on your dogs, it makes you go bloody wild. 2 But after you've made a fuss about it to go and sit down like a bloody coward, that personally I don't understand. I saw it with my own eyes the other day on the back platform of an S bus. 3 Personally I thought the young man's neck was somewhat long and I also thought that kind of plait thing round his hat was bloody silly. 4 Personally I would never dare to show myself in such a get-up. 5 But anyway, like I said, when he'd moaned at another passenger was was treading on his toes, this chap went and sat down and that was that. 6 Personally I would have clipped him one, any bastard that trod on my toes. 7 I tell you, personally I think there are some odd things in this life, it's only mountains that never meet. 8 A couple of hours later I met that young chap again. 9 I saw him with my own eyes in front of the gare Saint-Lazare. 10 Yes, I saw him myself wiht a friend of his own kidney who was saying -- I heard him with my own ears: "You ought to raise that button." 11 I personally saw him with my own eyes, he was pointing to the top button.