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New treatments seek to control obesity | Learn English phrase 'to spare'

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How Prescription Drugs Get Their Names

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. There's a funny scene in an old TV show, Seinfeld. Two women are in the bathroom, one in each stall. One realizes she's out of toilet paper and asks the woman in the other stall if she has any to spare. And the other woman says, I don't have any to spare, I can't spare a square. That means she can't give up even one square to help another person in need.

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