Quote Originally Posted by Geonz View Post
Ask mr. google and she sends you to...
Oh, my goodness! I genuinely thought that there were multiple words missing from that sentence, and the idea that it was an idiom worthy of googling never even entered my mind! Thanks for the help.

Quote Originally Posted by Possegal View Post
Is dummy a word most Americans know for a pacifier?
I don't know that any Americans (besides you, I presume) would know it for a pacifier. A dumb person, a crash-test dummy, a mannequin... All those, sure. A pacifier? I just can't see it. Well, what do you expect from people who make the storage area of a car share a name with a type of shoe?