Worried stiff!
When I was a kid, I really loved a TV series called The Tomorrow People (Fremtidsfolket in Danish). It was about kids who had the power to teleport around and who had a cool computer, and I remember running about in the garden shouting “Contact, Tim!”
I’ve now rented the first few episodes on DVD, and it is very odd to watch: The actors are not very good, they speak with an exaggerated RP accent with odd idioms (one of them said his parents were worried stiff), and as Marcel said: “They have olden-days powers”.
It is funny to think that something that isn’t yet invented is already an olden-days power! But he was totally disgusted with this low-tech sci-fi! As for the language – worried sick or scared stiff sound fine but worried stiff sounds vaguely obscene 😉
Hov. Den serie sÃ¥ jeg da vist ogsÃ¥-det var pÃ¥ dansk TV, ikk’? Den mÃ¥ jeg se, om man ogsÃ¥ kan lÃ¥ne herhjemme.
Ja, naturligvis var det på dansk TV.