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Chris -- 2018-04-11
To seize up is to suddenly cease all activity or motion. Lots of hits:
When taking rests, treat it as a warm down and don’t just stop or your legs may cease up; do some stretching.
And longer-term, thermostatic shower valves can cease-up resulting in costly repairs or replacement.
Either way, with even just a sprinkling of the wintery blanket, the United Kingdom tends to cease up faster than an engine with no oil.
I likened it to being a mack truck cruising along at full speed only to have your entire engine cease up on
you, stopping you dead in your tracks:
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Sometimes it’s just hard to keep track.
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Dang. I did look: just looked with the wrong terms. Sorry about that!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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kkkk. I knew it was there, it took a lot of work to find it.
(I like the Brazilian expression for online chuckles).
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