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Phrases Quotes by Daniel Handler
- Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a…
- To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.
- For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace…
- If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and…
- A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing…
- Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you…
- The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing†is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know,…
- I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.
- You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.
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