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| The ceremony honored twelve brilliant athletes … visiting the U.S. |
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| Juan thought and thought … and then thought some more. |
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"Wardrobe malfunction"
(Justin Timberlake's description of his tearing of Janet Jackson's costume during a half-time performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII) |
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| "passed away," "kicked the bucket" or died |
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| A street light is like a star. Both provide light at night, both are in predictable locations, both are overhead, and both serve no function in the daytime. |
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| # "I have to have this operation . . .. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." |
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# "We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile." |
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| "Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it." |
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| * "They dove, splashed, floated, splashed, swam, snorted." |
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| # "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." |
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| # "Brazil won the soccer match." |
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| "The world treated him badly." |
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| The pen is mightier than the sword." |
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| metonymy (he likes the content, not the bottle itself!) |
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| # "I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." |
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| "The girl's love of sweets was her Achilles heel, |
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| allusion (referencing the warrior in Greek mythology, Achilles, who could only be harmed if something hit his heel ) |
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| "We lived and laughed and loved and left." |
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* "The grave's a fine a private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace." |
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| # "Prostitutes Appeal to Pope" |
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# "War is peace."
"Freedom is slavery."
"Ignorance is strength." |
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| "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife." |
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| # "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." |
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# "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s precisely the opposite."
(John Kenneth Galbraith) |
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| "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, |
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# "Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya,
Brylcreem, you'll look so debonair!
Brylcreem, the gals'll all pursue ya! |
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| “pop,” in others, “soda.” |
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| "she broke a chisel trying to get it off last night!" |
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| when she takes it off she loses 30 pounds!" |
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| T(ry) to (ligh)t the (fire.) |
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| leet feet sweep by sleeping Greeks. |
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| Haha, I assume Only Juniors from the class of 2011 are ganna use this now. Good luck. Actually You might want to study more than this. Going over these, I did a really crap job with the examples. Whatever. Good luck! |
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