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Re:The spine of San Francisco is now car-free by chrisseaton on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:56AM (#22192276)
> the streetcars were already in rude health and dying

You can't be both in rude health and dying at the same time! They mean the opposite thing!

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Re:The spine of San Francisco is now car-free by ghaff on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:02AM (#22192338)
Rude health isn’t really a common term. I interpreted it as poor health which seems rather obvious from the context. It does appear to actually mean good health but it’s pretty obscure.
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