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navi tasan

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Is this sentence correct:
1-The blade goes into your flesh like cutting butter.
 

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I'd say like a 'knife through butter'. ;-)
 

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tdol said:
I'd say like a 'knife through butter'. ;-)

Always learning something here. This expression adds to my idiom project. I checked the Internet and found three expressions:

1. A knife through better,
2. A warm knife through butter, (Least listings)
3. A hot knife through butter. (Most listings.)

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How about a knife through warm butter?

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Hot knife through warm butter???? ;-)
 

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Some interesting statistics from Google exact search today: (Am I organized?)

A knife through butter ............................3,080 listings
A warm knife through butter .............................. 431
A hot knife through butter .......................... 13,800


A Knife through warm butter ...............................200
A warm knife through warm butter....................................0
A hot knife through warm butter................................126


A knife through hot butter ................................316
A warm knife through hot butter ...................................0
A hot knife through hot butter....................................5

I think people make up their own "idioms" to throw up off.

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Idioms can be flexible- they don't have to be used in exactly the same way. ;-)
 
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