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To be enamored of words without understanding their meaning; to react to words rather than arguments; as in the fishwife who tolerated being called a thief, a liar, and a prostitute, but objected to being called a parallelogram.
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I've just learned about his ... I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb
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