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Re: Idioms & Phrases

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Monday, August 26, 2002, 2:20
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:20:28 -0700, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
wrote:

>The language has a tendency to shorten many common phrases into a single >word, although everyone knows the expanded form to which it refers. Anyone >know of another language (con or nat) that does this sort of thing?
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