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08-01-2016 , 06:17 PM
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Is it North American in origin, or can you find no evidence that it is not North American in origin?
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08-01-2016 , 06:34 PM
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0. Idiomatic expression
1. Does not reference a human body part or an animal
2. Does not reference food or directly reference anything living
3. Operative part of the idiomatic expression (which here I'll describe as the part that one would recognize as the thing that makes it an idiomatic expression -- e.g., the part that might be listed as its Wikipedia entry) does not contain at least one personal or possessive pronoun
4. Operative part of the idiomatic expression is three words or less
5. Not North American in origin
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08-01-2016 , 06:36 PM
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Was it originally in Inglische?
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08-01-2016 , 06:39 PM
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0. Idiomatic expression
1. Does not reference a human body part or an animal
2. Does not reference food or directly reference anything living
3. Operative part of the idiomatic expression (which here I'll describe as the part that one would recognize as the thing that makes it an idiomatic expression -- e.g., the part that might be listed as its Wikipedia entry) does not contain at least one personal or possessive pronoun
4. Operative part of the idiomatic expression is three words or less
5. Not North American in origin
6. Originally in English
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08-01-2016 , 06:51 PM
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Is the operative part of the expression 3 words?

and

In your subjective opinion would the expression be considered commonly used (as opposed to rarely used)?
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08-01-2016 , 06:55 PM
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Interesting that you threw "directly" in there.

edit: yikes missed the next page. That was re: Q2
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08-01-2016 , 06:59 PM
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Interesting that you threw "directly" in there.

edit: yikes missed the next page. That was re: Q2

yeah, I noticed that too.. might be helpful later.

Are we allowed to provide a link and ask if the idiom is one of those listed in said link? Not sure of protocol on that...
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08-01-2016 , 07:01 PM
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It's allowed but kinda frowned upon IMO, especially this early. For example we could ask if it's in the list linked by IBD, and if yes, then we have the win locked already just by binary sort, which isn't really fun.
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08-01-2016 , 07:01 PM
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Yeah, that is allowed usually.
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08-01-2016 , 07:02 PM
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It can also make the game a little less fun if it ends up being on the list.
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08-01-2016 , 07:04 PM
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0. Idiomatic expression
1. Does not reference a human body part or an animal
2. Does not reference food or directly reference anything living
3. Operative part of the idiomatic expression (which here I'll describe as the part that one would recognize as the thing that makes it an idiomatic expression -- e.g., the part that might be listed as its Wikipedia entry) does not contain at least one personal or possessive pronoun
4. Operative part of the idiomatic expression is three words or less
5. Not North American in origin
6. Originally in English
7. Operative part of the idiomatic expression is three words
8. Would not be considered to be commonly used
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08-01-2016 , 07:06 PM
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True.. Not much fun. Plus, pretty sure Gad's came up with an archaic English idiom uttered once during the Great Potato Famine...lol

He is not dropping anything on us we can narrow down easy.
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08-01-2016 , 07:08 PM
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Idioms uttered once aren't idioms

They're just a random thing some dude said that one time
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08-01-2016 , 07:08 PM
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What do you think of asking if it has reference to death or dying? If so, should we add some other common idiom themes?
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08-01-2016 , 07:10 PM
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Is it a positive expression?

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It's allowed but kinda frowned upon IMO, especially this early. For example we could ask if it's in the list linked by IBD, and if yes, then we have the win locked already just by binary sort, which isn't really fun.
I agree with all of this.
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08-01-2016 , 07:19 PM
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Quote:
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Idioms uttered once aren't idioms

They're just a random thing some dude said that one time
ASD is nasty..
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08-01-2016 , 07:20 PM
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Is it a positive expression?



I agree with all of this.
Is this an official question?
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08-01-2016 , 07:22 PM
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I took it as such.
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08-01-2016 , 07:37 PM
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Want to make sure, if Benny can confirm
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08-01-2016 , 07:54 PM
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Yes, official Q
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08-01-2016 , 07:57 PM
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0. Idiomatic expression
1. Does not reference a human body part or an animal
2. Does not reference food or directly reference anything living
3. Operative part of the idiomatic expression (which here I'll describe as the part that one would recognize as the thing that makes it an idiomatic expression -- e.g., the part that might be listed as its Wikipedia entry) does not contain at least one personal or possessive pronoun
4. Operative part of the idiomatic expression is three words or less
5. Not North American in origin
6. Originally in English
7. Operative part of the idiomatic expression is three words
8. Would not be considered to be commonly used
9. Not a positive expression
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08-01-2016 , 08:00 PM
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I guess could also ask if a negative expression
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08-01-2016 , 08:03 PM
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HV what do you think of a question related to sickness, illness, death or dying?
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Is it an expression related to sickness, illness, death or dying?
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