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"item_title" : "School-Room Humour",
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Overview
Reasonably enough the idiom is extremely troublesome to the child-mind. "The doctor says my mother has one foot in the grave," wrote a little girl the other day in a Composition Exercise. "That is not true. She has both feet in bed " Again, if people will talk about "going it bald-headed," or about being "stony-hearted" or "iron-fisted" or "brazen-faced," and so on, they must naturally expect young children to accept the phraseology in its literal sense. Hence amusing misconceptions. Again, as I say, it is often a question of not having quite got the right word.
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- ISBN-13: 9781544665788
- ISBN-10: 1544665784
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: March 2017
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.14 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.22 pounds
- Page Count: 66
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