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- From: brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (breadner ken u)
- Subject: Words that are Opposites...
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- Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:51:49 GMT
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- Here's an idiosyncracy I have always found fascinating.
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- The verb "to cleave", depending on context, can mean "to split apart" or
- "to cling together".
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- A "fat chance" and a "slim chance" are one and the same.
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- Are there more of these wierd phrases out there?
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- Ken Breadner (brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca) Wilfrid Laurier University
- lunatic (the BREADbox...) Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- "If you have built your castles in the air, do not despair. That is where
- they belong. Now put the foundations under them." --Thoreau
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