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More on idioms

In a comment on my little posting on idioms this morning, Season Taylor linked to this t-shirt:

This is from the mental_floss store: Where knowledge junkies get their fix. They offer a wide variety of linguistically playful shirts and note cards, for example

HOMONYMS are a reel waist of thyme

and

Ambiguity: What happens in Vagueness stays in Vagueness

(with the Happens In, Stays In snowclone).

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