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Old 01-10-2009, 02:12 AM   #11 (permalink)
MonsteroftheId
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All idioms have their origins so I'd be hard pressed to come up with one that didn't "make sense" logically, even if the literal meaning is no longer clear (e.g. 'the whole nine yards'.) It's only at the point where two ideas meet metaphorically to represent a single concept that language seems strange to me: how does under+stand = comprehension?
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