"Touch-Up" Has a Dirty Connotation in England

While watching Craig Ferguson late one night I learned that while the phrase "touch-up" is completely innocent in the United States it has a dirty meaning in the United Kingdom. While they didn't parse it out entirely on the TV, I gathered that it has a similar meaning to the way American's colloquially use "feel up". Luckily I was in the US when my parents asked me to "give a touch-up" to this old painting so I knew it wasn't a raunchy suggestion:


After years of sitting in my grandmother's living room the fluctuations in temperature and humidity had caused some of the oil paint to crack and flake off. The damaged area was quite modest in size, but so smack dab in the center of the composition that it was really impossible to ignore:


While the actual area that I had to repair was quite small, it was a time-consuming project because of the necessity to match the new paint exactly to the extant color. It was easy sailing once I settled on the correct color recipe for the foliage:


Looks good as new now!