[Ads-l] sad on you

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at skechers.com>
wrote:

> Good on you!


The stress is on the preposition, right?

'good *on* you!' and not 'good for *you*!'

IAC, I think of the former as a literary Briticism. I'm not sure of how
it's pronounced, in the wild.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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