"Most of these people including me are 'thumbs up' (uneducated)," said a 37-year-old Gujarati trader. (Hindustan Times, August 26, 2005)
Nathan Heller writes for the New Yorker (archived) about James Daunt, who
runs much of the bookselling world and apparently does so surprisingly
well: Thou...
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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