"Most of these people including me are 'thumbs up' (uneducated)," said a 37-year-old Gujarati trader. (Hindustan Times, August 26, 2005)
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4 comments:
Odd choice of name for the coke-drink then!
Thums Up? That's been around longer than this bit of slang, I'm sure.
I adore the Hindi idiom 'Kaala akshar bhains baraabar' referring to the same thing. For Non-Hindi speakers, that means 'a black letter and a buffalo are one and the same (to the illiterate)'
There's also 'akal badi ki bhains' which translates as 'Which one's bigger, the brain or a buffalo?' - implying that the illiterate would choose buffaloes over brains.
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