Talk:just about

In my experience, this idiom has contrary connotations in the United Kingdom and America. In England, "just about", carries the connotation "by a small margin", while in America, it connotes "not by a small margin." In America, if you just about made the red light, you missed it; in England, you made it.

Surely it depends on the verb; "I just about made it" has to mean "I made it by a small margin" - it can never mean I didn't make it. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:30, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

In the U.S. If "I just about made it," I didn't quite make it.

uhha.. hence the definition? Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 05:34, 19 December 2010 (UTC)