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[hiromi525]

#1.mission impossible
#2.impossible mission
I believe that both of the expressions are grammatically OK.
What does each expression sound to you.
What difference does it make?

[Bob S.]

[hiromi525]

Thank you Bob S. I learned a lot today.
I come up with another example.
American movie, Coyote Ugly

[Bob S.]

[CP]

The term coyote ugly arose this way:

A coyote caught in a trap will chew off its own arm to escape.

A coyote ugly girl is one who is so hideous, that the fellow who wakes up next to her the morning after a night of too much drinking, who finds himself trapped with an arm under her shoulder, would rather gnaw his own arm off to escape than risk waking the girl up.

It's a cruel joke, of course, but that's what it means. If someone wants to refer to a girl as really, really ugly, all he has to do is say she's coyote ugly, and nothing more needs to be said.

The bar Coyote Ugly, with its fun-loving, good-looking waitresses and bartenders, is named ironically. They would never hire a coyote ugly girl to work there.
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[hiromi525]

Dear Bob S. and CP
Thank you very much for introducing New York Bar. I wish I llived in NY and I could go to the Bar.
Thanks to your explanations, I was able to understand what Coyote imply to American people.