[lit-ideas] Re: Exercise

'What can I do you for?'
I use this on two occasions. One is when a close relative of someone I know well dies. The other is when I find out they are very ill.
As it turns out, there is quite a bit one can do. One is to maintain frequent contact with the survivor after the funeral. That's when it seems the worst loneliness sets it.
In the case of severe illness, drive him or her to doctors, therapies, pick up prescriptions, etc. 

Veronica
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'What can I do you for?'

'How do you like them apples?'

'The early bird gets the worm.'

Anything derived from Ben Franklin.

'reference,' used as a verb

'I could care less.'
In the mid-nineties I used this in class as an example of how use and literal meaning came apart. Or something. One student came up to me afterwards and said that he'd never noticed until then that 'I could care less,' didn't mean what he'd always thought it meant. 

Robert Paul,
denying the obvious somewhere
south of Reed College





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