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Old April 24th, 2014 #30
Hunter Morrow
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Things that used to describe things that would now be called "hot" or "cool" now. I've kind of noticed that the idea of cats as "cool" is going away in our idomatic speech.

I always liked cat idioms. My father would always say phrases like "purring like a kitten" for a piece of machinery that worked particularly well.