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Not right and not taken.

There is only one left-handed person left

An unreasonable fear of the homeless

To polish, and make clean and stuff, but that doesn't matter. Furbish is the coolest sounding work ever made.

"Furbish Furbish Furbish Furb-Ouch!"

The masculine pronoun.

"He smells of cabbage"

see abbr.

That bump in the middle of your face

All around; on every side
The construction not about to is often used to express determination: We are not about to negotiate with terrorists. A majority of the Usage Panel considers this usage acceptable in speech but not in formal writing. ·About is traditionally used to refer to the relation between a narrative and its subject: a book about Cézanne; a movie about the Boston Massacre. This use has lately been extended to refer to the relation between various nonlinguistic entities and the things they make manifest, as in The party was mostly about showing off their new offices or His designs are about the use of rough-textured materials. This practice probably originates with the expression That's what it's all about, but it remains controversial. Fifty-nine percent of the Usage Panel rejected this use in the example A designer teapot isn't about making tea; it is about letting people know that you have a hundred dollars to spend on a teapot.

" walked all about your mother's house before entering."