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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2019-09-03 09:09 pm
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Boooooook

A quick post to just say that I have purchased the Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors and it is FANTASTIC.

Down-daggered - daunted, confused

Eat shorn-bug for dinner - Live in extreme poverty

He's gone to visit his uncle - Has left his wife soon after marriage

Sleep at Mrs. Green's - Spend the night outside, on the grass

Soaped pig style - Vague, intentionally ambiguous

As soon drive a top over a tiled house - Of something derided as impossible
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misbegotten: A skull wearing a crown with text "Uneasy lies the head" (Default)

[personal profile] misbegotten 2019-09-04 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooooooooh!
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[personal profile] telophase 2019-09-04 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
And it's HUUUUUUGE!
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[personal profile] oracne 2019-09-04 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
WOW.
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[personal profile] telophase 2019-09-04 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup!
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2019-09-04 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Must. Have.
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[personal profile] telophase 2019-09-04 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Once I learned of its existence, it had to be mine.
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2019-09-04 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
How neat!
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