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Terms Which Have Disappeared

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...We say roll down the window even though it is a switch not a crank. :p Switch down the window just sounds wrong. :p
I suppose we could simply say, "Open the window," or "Close the window," both of which would be applicable regardless of the method used. :D

It's better than my 4 year old, who, with the linguistic inelegance typical of her age, asks me to "put down the window."
Did you tell her that you never picked up the window in the first place...
Alternately, you could have looked at the window and said something like, "Window, you're so fat that when you sit around the house, you sit around the house."
 
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I've read though this thread as it developed, but didn't go back this morning to check, has "tomcatting" been discussed? That put down for a promiscuous and overly aggressive male seems to have faded away.
 

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I've read though this thread as it developed, but didn't go back this morning to check, has "tomcatting" been discussed? That put down for a promiscuous and overly aggressive male seems to have faded away.

We had another word for that, but I can't use it here. But such a man was likely to be riddled with Cupid's diseases, which is another term which seems to have disappeared.
 
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I've read though this thread as it developed, but didn't go back this morning to check, has "tomcatting" been discussed? That put down for a promiscuous and overly aggressive male seems to have faded away.

We had another word for that, but I can't use it here. But such a man was likely to be riddled with Cupid's diseases, which is another term which seems to have disappeared.

I've always thought that the term "satyr" had an elegant ring to it. :p
 

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