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hiromichi
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 Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: bloody or white |
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Is "bloody-knuckle"below an expression intensifying "whiteknckle"?
Yet he suddenly finds himself in a nasty tangle, not with the Republicans who held little back in their effort to thwart his run for vice president, but with a wing of his own party that has adopted a bloody-knuckle approach to politics and wants to finish him off in Connecticut’s primary on Aug. 8.
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Mister Micawber
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No. White knuckles signify tension/stress. Bloody knuckles signify rough fighting/struggle/argument.
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hiromichi
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Mister Micawber, Thank you very much. I was late in making a reply because I could not come to this scene via Opera browser. Opera clashed again and again. So I am now here via Microsoft Internet Explorer.
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hiromichi
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Correction. Not clash but crash.
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| Opera crashed again and again. So I am now here via Microsoft Internet Explorer. |
Try Firefox, Hiro-- I love it!
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