When a Brit says he lost two stones on his diet it means he had a pretty successful diet. A stone equals 14 pounds.
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When a Brit says he lost two stones on his diet it means he had a pretty successful diet. A stone equals 14 pounds.
Though I think he’d say, he’d lost two stone, not stones. I think the idiom uses the singular as a plural.
Good point Brad: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stone