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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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An uncommon but sensible reshaping of a somewhat opaque idiom-
A girl left to her own advices for months on end tends to do one of two things.
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still struggling to stay off wheat and sugar. i’m really good about it when left to my own advices but living with roomates its way to tempting …
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Left to my own advices, I noticed a heavy chair unoccupied against the wall, and I laid it down on its back on the threshold of the door.
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“I take it I will be left to my own advices until the evening meal and that the dwarf or one of the servants will notify me of its beginning on time?
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... planning on walking to the blockbuster to rent a movie, as many teenagers do when left to their own advices.
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Love this one… Makes entirely good sense. With only your own advice to follow, you are left to your own advices. (Though why plural…? That is an unusual construction.)
Feeling quite combobulated.
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