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Yesterday’s Frazz:

The strip turns on an ambiguity of the (separable) V + Prt combination throw out: the high-frequency sense ‘discard’ and the very specialized sense in throw out one’s back ‘experience sudden acute back pain’. Naturally, kids go for the ‘discard’ sense.

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