Talk:Cary Grant

Trouble understanding, perhaps a British idiom?

What does this mean?

and would reduce pocket money for minor mishaps.

Reduce makes less. Pocket money is small amount of loose bills and coins. Minor mishaps are usually insignificant mistakes or accidents. Putting it all together leaves me confused. His mother gave away/spent loose change when minor accidents happened? Mopenstein (talk) 11:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Pocket money is a British term for an allowance given to kids by their parents. I guess we need to leave it like it is because of engvar. Unless you want to elaborate somehow. RegentsPark (comment) 17:32, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing it up. Is allowance more universally understood?

and would reduce her children's allowance due to minor mishaps

Or

and would reduce extravagances for her children over minor mishaps

I'm a native English speaker and have never heard the term pocket money used in place of allowance. I certainly understand why it would be used but there has to be a less confusing way to word this sentence. Mopenstein (talk) 12:08, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Even if we keep “pocket money” (which, although not that common, is certainly a term I have heard), would it be more clear if the sentence read “and would reduce his pocket money for minor mishaps”? Missing the possessive pronoun makes it more confusing, I think. Rcarter555 (talk) 13:13, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm a native speaker of English as it's practised in the UK, and I can tell you, pocket money is the usual idiom for a child's permitted ration of spending money from their parents. The word allowance is still considered an Americanism and alien to UK usage.

Nuttyskin (talk) 03:23, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

FILMOGRAPHY

OMITS SOME MOVIES, SUCH AS 1932 THIS IS THE NIGHT ~2026-34994-07 (talk) 02:23, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

It is not necessary to communicate on Wikipedia talk pages by using all capital letters. You need to take a look at the Talk page guideline of WP:SHOUT.

Also. Not every Cary Grant film is listed in this biographical article, there's not enough room, doing so would make this article unbelievably long. There is a whole separate List of all of Grant's stage & film & radio work - List of Cary Grant performances. This is the Night is listed there and also has its own Wikipedia article. - Shearonink (talk) 03:01, 14 June 2026 (UTC)