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MIPOTW: Magpie?
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Yeah, this is clearly a case of acronym gone awry:
Most Interesting Phrase of the Week (MIPOTW)
But, it is accurate and I’m intrigued by the possible pronunciation:
mi-POT-wuh
Sounds like some sort of Native American sacred greeting or maybe a healthy afternoon snack? (another digression)
Anyway, phrases sometimes jump out and grab me, jiggle me up and down and make me chuckle and/or throw things as the case may be. So, I thought it would be fun to share, as I am prone to do. And, might possibly do on a regular basis.
This week’s phrase comes from my current mystery, The Body on the Beach, by Simon Brett (pg 70):
“The room was like the nest of a kleptomaniac magpie.”
Mental picture anyone?
[Very incidentally, Wikipedia tells me that the English magpie is the only non-mammal species that can recognize itself in the mirror. That one's for free.]
© Haley Montgomery
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this one made me laugh out loud! thanks for sharing! (and, yes, I can easily picture it – my girls’ room until last Monday when I removed a full trash bag and FOUR boxes of “stuff”! No wonder they don’t know what to do when I say “go clean your room!”)