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fling down |
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Translations ? fling down vt sep (lit) → runterschmeißen (inf); to fling down the gauntlet → den Fehdehandschuh hinwerfen or hinschleudern How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was a beautiful, impossibly romantic place; it made me think of our own memories, how we polish some of them to a false perfection, like that sanitised priory, and let others fend for themselves in darkly overgrown forgetfulness, like these neglected garden trees, colossal and almost unseen except for the flowers they still fling down, from time to time, uninvited. But the water is so frozen I can hear the rocks I fling down the shaft ricochet off the ice. It's almost enough to make me fling down my copy of Now in disgust. |
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