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Originally Posted By: FaldageOriginally Posted By: Humpty D.They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!
All one needs to do to rassle even the proudest verb to the ground is to convert it to a phrasal verb. There's not a single verb but it can be subdued by a simple particle.
wouldn't wrestle be the more standard way of doing this?
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