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random diva nation of bedlam headman hoodlum doodling then I wouldn't be long gone I'd be Dogon This is really tough. I don't know how much of this second stanza is just for sound - the pairings of similar sounding words - if the
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"Andy Leighton" (Email Removed) skrev i meddelelsen It's not a common English expression, and I don't know the song it's from; I think he may be alluding to the Tennyson poem The Lady Of Shalott . Which is the only reference
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I'm from Denmark and have heard the expression "mirror blue" ... them refers to an album by Richard Thompson from 1994). It's not a common English expression, and I don't know the song it's from; I think he may be
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Tony Cooper filted: Is 'stone alcoholic' a regular expression, like 'stone drunk'? Using it mixes generations. My grandfather would not have recognized "stone xx" to mean "a complete xx", but my son ...
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(to Young Joey) God help me, I think you may be typical of ... country to the Islamists right now and beg for mercy. You think they're more likely to like Mahler? Hey, some of the kids are all right. I came across this Web page written by a
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"But I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs. They're callin' again." Is "tossed salad ... the callers of Dr Frazier's talk show. Byt why "tossed salad and why "scrambled
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Not quite (to me, anyway). To rake over the coals ... in the barbecue. Not necessarily. I usually use a poker. "Haul/pull over the coals, to", is in Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. as: (mid-18C+) to reprimand. (the punishment meted
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I had a look at the picture and now I am wondering about the caption: "CITTERNS: The classical barbers shop instrument, wire strung and with solid frets." Why "barber's shop" instrument?... The barbershop quartet was born
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