Çin'de önce soyadımızı sonra adımızı koyarız.
- In China, we put our family name first, then our name.
Soyadınızın yazılışı nasıl?
- What's the spelling of your family name?
Tom mahkum edilmişse aile adımız mahvolacak.
- Our family name will be ruined if Tom is convicted.
Aile adınızı nasıl hecelersiniz?
- How do you spell your family name?
In other words, they might go to the devil and starve—Hobson's choice!—for all the other factories were owned by men who offered no better terms.
Tommy-axe. A corruption of tomahawk: an instance of the law of Hobson-Jobson (q.v.).