another LV - Riddle question

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 98378

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David Burgess" <burgess at c...> 
wrote:

Dave:
> Umbridge is sometimes used to describe what someone feels when they 
think
> they've been insulted or slighted.  Common use is "to take 
umbridge" with
> a statement or position.  I can't think of another colloquialism 
that
> would mean quite the same thing, unless it was something like "got 
his
> shorts in a knot about" the statement.  I'm not sure it's any 
clearer that
> way, but the former is much more haughty - Thurston Howell III 
would take
> umbridge, Gilligan would get his shorts in a knot.
> 
> >I haven't figured out what Fudge stands for though.
> 
> In American English, to 'fudge' sometimes means 'to cheat a little 
bit'. 

Geoff:
A correction and a couple of observations.

(1) We take "umbrage"  not "umbridge". The latter is obviously JKR's 
invented name but the intention is for us to recognise the 
connotation.

(2) UK English also has "fudge".

(3) In UK English, we would probably "get our knickers in a twist"