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echo: english_tutor
to: ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
from: DALLAS HINTON
date: 2020-09-09 11:25:00
subject: ?

Hi, Alexander -- on Sep 09 2020 at 14:13, you wrote:

 AK>>> What is "PC Plod"?
 PK>> I think the English 'PC' means 'Police Constable'.  Therefore,
 PK>> it seems that there is a copper named 'Police Constable Plod',
 PK>> a flatfoot.

Yes, the clues are:

1) 999 is the emergency phone number in Britain;
2) knowing that, PC stands for Police Constable;
3) and the word "plod" means to tread heavily and slowly as if walking
through thick mud, the implication being that PC Plod thinks that way!
:-)


Cheers... Dallas

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