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"Flake" is what we used to call people who had no real solid understanding of objective reality, but now they seem to be the dominant influence in the ruling class.

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"Elephant in the room" is a descriptive slang phrase that's loosely but distantly related to "800 pound gorilla", though its meaning is entirely and completely different (while "800 pound gorilla in the room" has been used occasionally, the phrase tends to blur the differences in accepted correct usage of the original phrases), and has nothing whatsoever to do with "camel's nose in the tent"...but all these incursions of fauna should be treated with concern by lexicographers, pedants, and government and corporate officers equally; perhaps of purely scholastic interest, the phrase "piranha in the bathtub" (sometimes "piranha in the pool") has never really grown the legs to become part of the vernacular, but being a fish, that's not particularly surprising from a zoological standpoint. ;);)

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standpoint is the position, either physical or mental, from which you perceive things. From a practical standpoint, your parents might want you to study accounting—but you're determined to follow your dream of becoming a professional mime

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Mime is a much maligned occupation, though in the mid-eighties I was able to see a Marcel Marceau performance and it was excellent. 

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Place your bets, place your bets, and their off and running, lettuce is ahead, rubber band is in the stretch,  tomato is trying to ketchup, and mother-in-law is nagging behind !

 

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