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xoxoxoBruce · 10-20-2007, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

You can have a high IQ and be dyslexic...and you can be thick as the preverbial swine stool and be dyslexic.

Really? Swine stool is proverbial? No wonder we admire your wonderful British lexicon.

queequeger · 10-20-2007, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Really? Swine stool is proverbial? No wonder we admire your wonderful British lexicon.

Proverbial doesn't just mean 'from a proverb,' man. It can also mean 'widely referred to.' So "He's dumb as the proverbial box of rocks" is correct usage. As is swine stool, if swine stool is a common measure of intelligence.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-20-2007, 10:45 PM

Thick as swine stool, is NOT proverbial, in the United States.

queequeger · 10-20-2007, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Thick as swine stool, is NOT proverbial, in the United States.

Ah, I get it. You were poking fun at the phrase being used frequently. I thought you were correcting usage. Check.

10-20-2007, 10:45 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Thick as swine stool, is NOT proverbial, in the United States.

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