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Originally Posted by DanaC
True. But you can grieve over a loss.
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As you see, not a direct object, but an indirect one.
I hold a similar view towards the phrase "belabor the point." I think "labor the point" a better phrase, despite being able to find the belabor usage cited approvingly by authorities. But laboring the point is to overdo it, while belaboring is battering -- physical or figurative -- and I should think any point so abused would rapidly be bent over and lose any resemblance to a point.
Any who simply must cite the above paragraph as an illustration of the verbal vice it condemns is at liberty to do so.:p
Bruce: mailmakers
do have an ontological existence. And they won't check with you on their jargon, the willful creatures.:p