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CowperKettle

06:52

"in huge assortment"

Another example of Runglish

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CowperKettle

13:36

Word of the day: quats (quaternary ammonium compounds)

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ColleenV

15:06

Maybe we should do idioms of the day too: “dyed in the wool”. She was a dyed-in-the-wool punk rocker and couldn’t bear listening to pop music.

CowperKettle

I know this expression!

I remember coming across it in O. Henry.

As I recall, he wrote of a "double-dyed deciever"

A Double-Dyed Deceiver

A Double-Dyed Deceiver is a lost 1920 American silent crime-drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Jack Pickford. It was produced and distributed by the Goldwyn Pictures company. == Plot == As described in a film magazine, The Llano Kid (Pickford), after killing a Mexican in Texas, flees to Buennas Tierras, South America. The American counsel, seeking to rob an aristocratic Spanish family whose son disappeared years ago, schemes to use the Kid as a fence by having him pose as the lost son. The Kid is received royally by the family and for the first time he experiences love. Transformed...

Ha, there's even a movie

ColleenV

16:00

@CowperKettle Neat! I haven’t heard double-dyed before. There’s also “out-and-out” and “through-and-through” that are similar I think out-and-out is only used for negatives. Pat was an out-and-out liar. Jessie was a saint through-and-through.

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