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Re:English as She Is Spoke by joshspankit on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:30AM (#25822660)
> The last one is surely an idiom

What about French’s “potato” translating as “Apple of the ground”?

In Canada that’s how bilingual packaging labels potatoes.

This also I suppose raises an interesting question: is the boundary between idiom and word really that clear?

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