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[US] Vocabula Rev. July IV:7 🌐 There are many jocular noun constructions that also provide the same meaning, and range in acceptability, although none of them has the versatility of their one-word equivalents: ‘Ugandan affairs,’ ‘country matters,’ ‘parallel parking,’ ‘horizontal folk-dancing,’ ‘you know what,’ ‘indoor sledging,’ ‘knee-trembler.’ Again, as the allusion retreats from sex and approaches humor, it becomes more acceptable.
at Ugandan discussion, n.
[US] Vocabula Rev. Jul. IV:7 🌐 There are many jocular noun constructions that also provide the same meaning, and range in acceptability, although none of them has the versatility of their one-word equivalents: ‘Ugandan affairs,’ ‘country matters,’ ‘parallel parking,’ ‘horizontal folk-dancing,’ ‘you know what,’ ‘indoor sledging,’ ‘knee-trembler.’ Again, as the allusion retreats from sex and approaches humor, it becomes more acceptable.
at indoor sledging (n.) under indoor, adj.
[US] Vocabula Rev. Jul. 4 No. 7 🌐 There are many jocular noun constructions that also provide the same meaning, and range in acceptability, although none of them has the versatility of their one-word equivalents: ‘Ugandan affairs,’ ‘country matters,’ ‘parallel parking,’ [...] as the allusion retreats from sex and approaches humor, it becomes more acceptable.
at parallel parking, n.
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