... avoid the name of fatal disease to call for short: Big C £ cancerhowever, Big C is the euphemism of Big Cancer; (39) to call grave the narrow house; (40) to call jail the big house. 2.3 To achieve vividness Vividness is one of the distinguishing characteristics of slang, most of slang compare the animal and food to people or things by dint of a metaphor in order to achieve the intention of visualize and ... can unceasingly renovate and acclimatize history trend, and take root in people's living. One important reason it is good at making use of the metaphor, which not only makes the mora...

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... actually prevent misuse or theft by passing a law? Well, not totally. If somebody was a moral, upright, and law abiding citizen he would probably not misuse or take the container. In fact, such a person would probably not have misused or taken it in the first place. On the other hand, if the person in question did not have such a desirable world view, if he, in fact ... to be killed, right? We already tried that once, and we got the wild west. Since the amendment is clear, and there are many zealous defenders of it, maybe we should just infringe on the rights thereby granted. Oh, and he...

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