Irritations

[c.d.]

Sorry to add to your confusion here, Doctored but I would strongly disagree with what you were told by your American friend. My understanding (and the way I have always used it) is that "making out" is limited to just hugging and kissing. "Getting it on" means uh...doing the deed if you get my drift.

I think you were mislead.

Maybe some other Yanks can weigh in.

c.d.

[Pcdunn]

Sorry to add to your confusion here, Doctored but I would strongly disagree with what you were told by your American friend. My understanding (and the way I have always used it) is that "making out" is limited to just hugging and kissing. "Getting it on" means uh...doing the deed if you get my drift.

I think you were mislead.

Maybe some other Yanks can weigh in.

c.d.

Yes, c.d. I think that "making out" meant (at least in the past) what my parents' generation might have called "necking": just hugging and kissing. (My parents were born in 1917 and '20, so came of age around 1938 or 41.)

It might depend on the age of the American as to whether his information that "making out' equates to "getting it on" is accurate. Language changes over time, and expressions and alter meaning. (Since the line in the movie is "only making out", I think the kissing meaning is more likely.)