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Chris -- 2018-04-11
To give succour is to provide relief and support in times of need. Its homophone, sucker, usually refers to some poor trusting dope who is easily gulled and the term is derived from that pre-weaned, helpless state mammals pass through where suckling, breastfeeding or “giving suck to’ amounts to receiving succour.
also said that one feral cat would not give sucker to anther cat’s litter but both of these totally unrelated females regularly fed and washed each …
Ron and who gave sucker to that military junta, helped arm them, said nothing about the death squads, allowed British companies to sell torture equipment to …
... softens over time, and the two women form an unlikely partnership in which their differences give sucker to each others vulnerability. ...
As we all now know, I hate giving sucker to the BB theory. However, I dislike this rubbish about light becoming redshifted by …
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