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#1 2018-01-11 05:32:55

AKMA
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'Fainted heart' for 'faint of heart'

My cousin saw the following sign near her home in St Croix:

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ … e=5AF9F654

‘WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINTED HEART’

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#2 2018-01-11 07:22:21

DavidTuggy
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Re: 'Fainted heart' for 'faint of heart'

Works for me. I like it! I suppose few things would be for the completely fainted heart. Would being faint of heart be the same as having a partially fainted heart?
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Feint of heart is revelant .

Last edited by DavidTuggy (2018-01-11 07:28:53)


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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