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It's a bad idiom
Post #171,892
by
deSitter
8/31/04 10:40:12 AM
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It's a bad idiom
It's okay when used in the context "accustomed to", but as an indicator of past action, it's tacky and easily replaced by "once" or "at one time", or, if you're a PHB, "formerly".
-drl
Weight soon over for pill that fights fags
- (
boxley
)
- (27)
- Aug. 30, 2004, 12:09:32 PM EDT
Makes perfect sense
- (
jbrabeck
)
- (2)
- Aug. 30, 2004, 01:10:41 PM EDT
One smokes fags, one does not blow them.
-NT
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pwhysall
)
- Aug. 30, 2004, 02:37:35 PM EDT
Re: Makes perfect sense
- (
deSitter
)
- Aug. 30, 2004, 03:03:09 PM EDT
endocannabinoid - your inner cannibal_____cha cha cha
-NT
- (
Ashton
)
- Aug. 30, 2004, 02:24:05 PM EDT
No, it is real
- (
broomberg
)
- Aug. 30, 2004, 06:14:49 PM EDT
So, how much did those pills use to weigh...
- (
CRConrad
)
- (21)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 02:17:05 AM EDT
Five. (soon over for)
-NT
- (
Meerkat
)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 05:11:59 AM EDT
Did you follow the link?
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drewk
)
- (1)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 08:55:52 AM EDT
Yuck! (But that's no reason for BOx to repeat it.)
-NT
- (
CRConrad
)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 09:11:47 AM EDT
That's "used to", pilky
- (
FuManChu
)
- (17)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 10:34:40 AM EDT
It's a bad idiom
- (
deSitter
)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 10:40:12 AM EDT
Nope, wannabe-Nussy, it sure as heck ain't.
- (
CRConrad
)
- (15)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 04:56:15 PM EDT
That was fun
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drewk
)
- (3)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 05:18:39 PM EDT
picture the history prof in the movie "back to school"
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 05:49:50 PM EDT
Everyone would drop after the first week
-NT
- (
lincoln
)
- (1)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 07:44:56 PM EDT
Killer Conrad!
-NT
- (
deSitter
)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 07:49:18 PM EDT
Nit
- (
jbrabeck
)
- (9)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 05:55:10 PM EDT
no nit either is acceptable
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 05:56:12 PM EDT
Either is OK
- (
deSitter
)
- (7)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 06:06:18 PM EDT
To my glorious British ears...
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pwhysall
)
- (6)
- Sept. 1, 2004, 02:01:29 AM EDT
Same here
- (
Meerkat
)
- (1)
- Sept. 1, 2004, 02:16:49 AM EDT
Try.. "he's done git got.."
-NT
- (
Ashton
)
- Sept. 1, 2004, 02:51:09 AM EDT
confusing it with the past tense of caught
- (
boxley
)
- (3)
- Sept. 1, 2004, 08:12:40 AM EDT
Nah, that's "done caughted"
-NT
- (
drewk
)
- (1)
- Sept. 1, 2004, 08:52:12 AM EDT
Isn't that what happens before people marry?
-NT
- (
Meerkat
)
- Sept. 1, 2004, 08:57:06 AM EDT
Ah don' cotten ta yer 'cottin'
-NT
- (
Ashton
)
- Sept. 1, 2004, 04:16:09 PM EDT
{chortle} Well.. shut ma mouf
- (
Ashton
)
- Aug. 31, 2004, 06:27:37 PM EDT
i
we
they
.org
She's just another ambitious slut from the prosecutor class.
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