>>>When I was in grade school, my English teacher would make us write 'anyone' 100 times if we used the word 'anybody' instead.
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>>Our English teacher would make us write out lines of "I must not use get, got or getting" if we used any. He was mad.
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>Simply writing 'color' was quite enough to 'get' mine into the curtains...
Presume "into the curtains" is a Belgian idiom (but which language) - never heard it in English.
"Up the pole", "off his head" "off his cake" (Scouse), "to lose his rag", "throw a wobbly", et al, et al. :-)
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- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
