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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Since, I imagine, most people who use the phrase ‘full fledged’ or ‘fully fledged’ have no definite idea what fledging is about, the phrase is ripe for substitution. As an alternate way of saying ‘fully grown,’ ‘full fleshed’ is about as good. It’s fairly common too, although most often used appropriately to describe ripe fruit or rounded fictional characters.
“So here it is-at last, at last-the full-fleshed arrival, in English, of the third member of the trinity in 20th-century fiction, complementing ‘Ulysses’ ...
www.pricegrabber.com/search_fullinfobk. … 0679767879
It was momentous for us in the history of our college when we shifted to our very own building in the year 1998 as full-fleshed day college.
www.nslawcollege.org/About.htm
In 2005, the undergraduate program was also approved to recruit students of its first class, and a full-fleshed department of educational psychology…
www.nhcue.edu.tw/~gepg/en/introduction/history.htm
Mobile signature Limited, a subsidiary of Ädventuré Mobile Ltd is a full fleshed Info tech company, with core competence in corporate web hosting.
www.mobilesignature.net/portfolio.htm
I will not vote for Obama because he’s not a full fleshed American.
blogs.abcnews.com/liveblogging/2008/09/more-from-the-s.html
He comes to life as a full-fleshed Cherokee patriot and an equally full-fleshed American entrepreneur …
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0095-182X(198621)10%3A2%3C142%3ATCGDEO%3E2.0.CO%3…
... lots of little tidbits like ancient paintings seem to indicate something but of course that cant account for a full fleshed explanation right?
www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?p=437743
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