Ottawa: Parler vous Francais?Oui, à Ottawa,on parle fran?ais
• HA, our home in Ottawa was called a Meat&Potatoes house once - 最西边的岛上 - Ottawa: Parler vous Francais?Oui, à Ottawa, on parle français. Ottawa is officially bilingual (English and French), as it's the capital of Canada. You'll hear both languages, especially in government offices, cultural institutions, and public signage. French is widely spoken, particularly in nearby Gatineau, Quebec, just across the river.
Meaning:
Meat and two vegetables, that is, meat with potatoes and another vegetable,
is a traditional English meal.
Background:
The term, in an allusion to the commonplace nature of this type of meal, has
also been used metaphorically to denote an ordinary, run-of-the-mill
offering. In the 20th century it has also been a jokey reference to male
genitalia.
- www.phrases.org.uk [edited]
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Meat and two veg would've sounded haute cuisine to many Chinese in the 50s and
60s. The British used to sail abroad and pillaged the world to better their
life-style. We landlubbers looked inward and lived on our atavistic wits and a
newly acquired faith, the triumph of the spirit over the material. We had vast
land and hard-working people, we reasoned, and we settled with nothing ordinary,
let alone failure. Production brigades reported in some years unheard of
bounty: thousands of catties of grain, tens of thousands of catties of sweet
potato, and 250 catties of cotton a mu. (千斤粮，万斤薯，棉花产量二百五)
• HA, our home in Ottawa was called a Meat&Potatoes house once - 最西边的岛上 - Ottawa: Parler vous Francais?Oui, à Ottawa, on parle français. Ottawa is officially bilingual (English and French), as it's the capital of Canada. You'll hear both languages, especially in government offices, cultural institutions, and public signage. French is widely spoken, particularly in nearby Gatineau, Quebec, just across the river.