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polishing and inspecting, like expert jewellers coaxing gems from lumps of unappealing carbon (not sure this is the only coaxing lumps, I'm sure turning anything lumpy into something beautiful would be the same
@ Bonnie:
Nope. Definitely not the way my mother used the term.
It does enlighten me, again, how even what seem the most common and obvious turns of phrase can be creatively misread. Always a hazard, in writing.
Ta, L.
I didn't guess its meaning correctly, but it makes sense now.
I misread it, too. "Asking for your lumps" would be what we would have said in northern Indiana.
I'm thinking it may have started as Go Asking Lumps.
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polishing and inspecting, like expert jewellers coaxing gems from lumps of unappealing carbon (not sure this is the only coaxing lumps, I'm sure turning anything lumpy into something beautiful would be the same
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@ Bonnie:Nope. Definitely not the way my mother used the term.
It does enlighten me, again, how even what seem the most common and obvious turns of phrase can be creatively misread. Always a hazard, in writing.
Ta, L.
I didn't guess its meaning correctly, but it makes sense now.
I misread it, too. "Asking for your lumps" would be what we would have said in northern Indiana.
I'm thinking it may have started as Go Asking Lumps.
