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hiromichi
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I do not understand the part of " give .......doryphores." I know a doryphore is a nit-picker.
A writer in the New Yorker in 1989 told of being taken to lunch one day by its editors: "They were rigidly abstemious, lest they fuddle their minds and give hostages to subsequent doryphores on returning to work."
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pugachevV
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| It means they did not drink .... because they did not want to give the nit- pickers something to hold against them in the future. |
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hiromichi
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pugachevV:
I SEE. Thank you very much.
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