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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain - Definition and Overview |
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 movie written by Ivor Monger, directed by Christopher Monger and starring Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald and Colm Meaney.
The movie is set in 1917 (with World War I in the background) and revolves around two English cartographers who arrive at the small Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw to measure its "mountain". The "mountain" gets demoted to a hill because it is too low, but the villagers pile dirt on top of the hill to make it high enough to be a mountain, so the village can appear on the map.
The movie is based on the real village of Taffs Well, Cardiff, Wales, UK and on Garth Hill.
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One of the more obscure jokes in the film occurs when a mechanic is asked about a nondescript broken part he has removed from a car, and replies "I don't know what you call it in English, but in Welsh we call it a bechingalw". Bechingalw in fact just means "what-do-you-call-[it]".
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Example Usage of Englishman |
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deana_71hlu: The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament - Google Books Result http://tinyurl.com/yf8jf2x |
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erinstandefer: @swiftski Sorry! An Englishman IN Australia. Got it. |
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nephellim: is not an Englishman in New York, but I'm singing anyway! #sting |
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