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Pygmalion choose

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[UK] Shaw Pygmalion II: He’s off his chump, he is. I dont want no balmies teaching me.
at balmy, n.
[UK] Shaw Pygmalion II: I shall make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe.
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] Shaw Pygmalion II: Youd had a drop in, hadnt you?
at have a drop in one’s eye (v.) under drop in one’s eye, n.
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