#linguistic differences!

I need you to understand how funny this is to me. I just found out North Americans use "top-shelf" to mean a generally positive adjective, a compliment, only when I had to double check for my own sanity whether or not a journalist referring to a singer as "top-shelf" knew the meaning of the phrase they were using or if they really were describing this man as someone you could not bring on morning radio.

huh, i usually call it either "the movie theater" or "the movies" and almost never just "the theater" - that has the context of being for stage plays instead of movies, to me? but i was also a theater kid growing up, so.