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SIR,—In view of the effort we are all making to promote understandin with our American allies, I would be grateful if some of your reade would explain the following phrases taken from Time of November 22nd. 1943: r. "A backlog in a barbershop."
2. "The book derives its strength from a dash of civet . . the p1 is a triangle whose base is broad, whose chief points are streamlined b agelessness."
3. " High-priced goon."
4. " Some of them had semantic reservations."
5. "A horrendous plot."
With the exception of civet, the underlined words are not in Chambe Twentieth Century Dictionary.
Can one buy a book of American phrases with English equivalents?