I have just become aware that I keep trying to work the following two words into conversation:
ham-handed
deploy
I'm onto me.
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3 comments:
My two big ones:
ostensibly
specious
They just TASTE good.
Tonight I used the word "hamstrung" and created some confusion. I was describing an actor and the person I was talking with said, "Yes! He is so ham-handed!"
Then I tried to explain what hamstrung actually meant, but I had a hard time. The best I could come up with is that one's hamstrings have been damaged and left to rot in the past tense, making it impossible for one to run.
That was me, not anonymous! Drat!
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