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  • Rebus from 1886 Yale Record magazine -- (if you think it's easy...)

    From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 1 10:34:06 2022
    (if you think it's easy (or utterly trivial) ...) (you should prob. wait a few days before ....)



    Rebus from 1886 Yale Record magazine

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    A con-ceit in me-ter.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conceit
    7. (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. [from 16th c.]

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