[He repeats it after her; the idiom rolled so smoothly from his tongue that it takes him a second to even figure out that that's what she's stuck on.]
Oh, that. It's just a turn of the phrase. You'll have to pardon me when I slip into that- it'd be a bit like you and Japanese. That sort of colloquialism is real common where I'm from.
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[He repeats it after her; the idiom rolled so smoothly from his tongue that it takes him a second to even figure out that that's what she's stuck on.]
Oh, that. It's just a turn of the phrase. You'll have to pardon me when I slip into that- it'd be a bit like you and Japanese. That sort of colloquialism is real common where I'm from.