"Draw The Curtains".

Khandro | 21:23 Wed 14th Oct 2020 | Phrases & Sayings

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In what sense do you use this, to open them or to close them?

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Peter Pedant

bofe - - - in essex that is!

draw as in open or close
undraw deffo open

draw and undraw we are teetering on the edge of autoantonyms - words that have two meanings - - one that is opposite to the other

[and as I explained this to my guide in Beijing I realised that I had spooks in the car ( Daddy had the same name as 'M' as in MI5) or 6 or 7 or .... when she turned to the so called taxi driver and said
" did you understand what he just said" - in Manthareen of course]
oh, daddy was a linguist and not a blitish spook

Khandro

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Q. How do you make a Roman blind?

Barsel

Poke him in the eye.

Barsel

I never use the word draw in connection with curtains.
If closing them I say 'Pull the curtains to' ( or is that too?)
If opening them, I just saw open the curtains.
Less complicated this way and you don't get wise cracks like 'I haven't got any paper and crayons.'

Barsel

say not saw.

AuntPollyGrey

'Draw the curtains' is pretty much used by people of a certain age or those that feel they have to demonstrate they belong to a certain class of people.

Close/Open the curtains/blinds etc is the modern form and has nothing to do with north/south divide, that's just snobbery.

BAKERS DOZEN

We close the curtains when we put the big light on.

ummmm

It's not snobbery. How can saying 'draw the curtains' be considered as snobbery?

I say it because my mum did, she says because my nan did. We're far from snobs.

Apc2604

I say draw/pull to close and open to open.

AuntPollyGrey

Ummmm you're too quick off the mark to have a go lol! I said it was snobbery to think only southern people used the term 'to draw the curtains' with reference to post 10.23 which suggested it.