Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm:
A pun on the word medium: an adjective, lying between cool and hot; or a noun: from NOAD2:
a person claiming to be in contact with the spirits of the dead and to communicate between the dead and the living.
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Idiomatic use, in this case, is between “mild” and “hot”, not “cool” and “hot”.
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November 27, 2013 at 1:29 am |
Idiomatic use, in this case, is between “mild” and “hot”, not “cool” and “hot”.