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Thread: butter in mouth
- 18-Jan-2006, 18:20 #21
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Re: butter in mouth It has to be coldness, wouldn`t an innocent wish to be initiated - and only if it were the consumption of butter. Adam and Eve (the Innocent) partook of the apple and were condemned...someone here wouldn`t let butter melt in his mouth...and it wasn´t the devil
Originally Posted by tdol It's definitely a possibility. What would you mean with the idiom- coldness or innocence or both acording to context?
Or is this mere conjecture.
- 19-Jan-2006, 05:53 #22
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Teacher Re: butter in mouth It wouldn't melt in the serpent's mouth because he was cold-blooded.
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