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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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Cut Your Wisdom Teeth - Brewer's Dictionary

The first edition of brewer's dictionary contained ound 20 thousand entries of words and phrases along with their accompanying fables or lore. To cut your wisdom teeth is idiom that might have fallen out of common use now that many people have those molars surgically removed before they break through the gums. The presence of wisdom teeth doesn't guarantee that people will be wise rather than foolish, but those teeth usually appear at an age when people are expected to no longer behave like children,. Instead be mature, wise and act with discretion.

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