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Oh thank you anna-- as i wrote that-- i thought were does it come from--but you're reply is exacting right--or is that write?
It was alway part of "she can dane to call her self the Queen of England, but it doesn't make it so...." and my M-W doesn't have dane meaning anything remotely like how i used it...
is a " a hares-breath? (vs a hairs breadth? some phrase i have totally mangled?) or is it some pecular phrase that no one else knows? Goodness knows i have heard it, and used it.. but i have no idea about it...
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(just ignore me as i scrap the egg off my face, from my hair... )
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I agree with you nemo, I think a woods sounds awful. A copse, a forest, the woods, would all have sounded better. Unfortunately, I am not nearly learned enough to tell you if this is really an error on their part. I have learned on this board that there are exceptions to the exceptions of the rules.
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of troy said : M-W doesn't have dane meaning anything remotely like how i used it...
is a " a hares-breath? (vs a hairs breadth? some phrase i have totally mangled?)of Troy, sweetie, try deign in the M-W or the SOED even. It's one of those pesky thingamees that we all stumble over now and then. I think "hair's breadth" is the phrase you're looking for. Breadth in this case meaning the width, side to side of a hair. The phrase means something very close i.e. "We missed death by a hair's breadth." That help? I'm pretty good at old timey sayings -- they were common currency in my long ago salad days!  Love wow
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As an aside, is there any way that one can retain the designation of "stranger"? I really like it, and would love to keep it, if that is possible.
The one way I can think is to unregister and re-register using Stranger as your handle. You'd lose what you have posted so far but you may feel it's worth it.
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>my long ago salad days!
okay, Tom bit, explain 'salad days' for us.
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It's a euphemism for one's youth. Now what does Tom bit mean?
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what does Tom bit mean?
My guess is that he is making a kind of Tom Swifty, she answered quickly. A Tom Swifty is a special kind of word play wherein the adverb or verb refers back to a preceding word.
Ex: "A ruler", she said straightly; or, "Love your halo", he said angelically.
Tsuwm, kindly correct any errors I've made, please.
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>It's a euphemism for one's youth.
I was hoping for a more than just an appetizer, he replied tastelessly.
"My salad days, When I was green in judgment."
-Will Shakespeare
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