Thread: Does anyone know "If I were a boy again"?
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Old 10-26-2010, 10:22 AM   #33
Undertoad
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along with the baby, you get the bathwater
You have used an idiom inside of a metaphor here, which is going to be totally confusing if the new English reader has never heard the original idiom!
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