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Wordwind has heard "green about the gills" instead of "green around the gills."
Ah, the vagaries of prepositions. And we wonder why ESL students have problems with them.
Example:
Do you stand in line or stand on line?
And, if you used to do the latter, have you changed to the former because on line means something toatally else in the computer age?
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