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Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained | Betty Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick

Finally bought a set from Cliche tea, a local Alaskan business that offers teas themed on literary cliches. I am trying Magical Powers today, an herbal lemon tea with a gorgeous blue color from butterfly pea. I'm excited to dig into the rest of this set. There is also a romance set, archetypes, and one for writers ☺️

TieDyeDude Clichetea.com 15h

JamieArc I‘ll have to check this out. Thanks for sharing! 14h

TheKidUpstairs Love this! Thanks for sharing! 14h

Deblovestoread Ooh I love knowing about this. I enjoy finding new tea places for gifts for my daughter so thank you. 12h

AnnCrystal 🫖☕😎👍💫. 12h

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I just really want this word to have something to do with cats 🐱😂 #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

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Suet624 😂😂 1d

Amiable Holy cow, I literally noticed this word in a book about an hour ago! It's like you were looking over my shoulder. In my bedroom. While I was reading in bed. Which would totally be weird. 😄 24h

CatLass007 Everything is always related to cats. The world revolves around cats. So of course even if the definition doesn‘t mention cats, it‘s still about cats.🐱 @Amiable That‘s serendipitous! And weird. 22h

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dabbe Cats are so special, they are part of their own concatenation. 🤩🖤🐾🖤🤩 20h

BookmarkTavern What a fun word! ❤️ 16h

CBee @Amiable what, you didn‘t notice me there? 😂😂😂 I read it in a book too

Dear Fang, With Love: A novel

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CBee @CatLass007 I knew you would appreciate that this word should be about cats. And probably is. Because cats 😊 11h

CBee @dabbe ooooo I see what ya did there. And I like it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 11h

CBee @BookmarkTavern right? There was also another cool word I considered using but it was a type of really creepy looking fish. I went with the non creepy one obviously 😂😂 (edited) 11h

Amiable @CBee I was reading

King: A Life

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CBee @Amiable I‘d like to read/listen to that one! 10h

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Better late than never, friends! I‘ve been on a Bob Dylan kick lately and the term and lyrics (my favorites in the song) above are from one of my favorite songs of his: Visions of Johanna. Anyone ever play blind man‘s bluff as a kid? #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

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CatLass007 Wow! I‘ve missed you. Happy New Year! I don‘t think I ever played blind-man‘s bluff as a child. But I‘ve heard of it. 1w

CBee @CatLass007 I‘ve missed you too! It‘s been a rough start to the new year but it‘s starting to look up 🤞🏻 1w

BookmarkTavern Glad to see you back! And never played, but I have heard of it! 1w

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Cuilin Yes. It was a staple child‘s birthday party game, along with Pass the Parcel in Ireland in the 70‘s. 1w

TheSpineView I played! That does bring back memories. 1w

CBee @BookmarkTavern thank you! I‘ve missed you guys. 1w

CBee @Cuilin tell me about Pass the Parcel! That‘s a new one. 1w

dabbe So glad to see you, m'dear! I've never played blind-man's bluff, but I have read about it. 🩶🖤🩶 1w

Cuilin Pass the parcel, the host has a gift wrapped with many layers of paper. The game starts with everyone seated in a circle. Music is played, the gift is passed around. When the music stops whoever is holding the parcel unwraps a layer, this continues with the music starting and stopping and layers being removed until the last player to remove the last piece of paper gets to keep the gift. 🎁 7d

Cuilin @TheSpineView Musical Chairs, Blind Man‘s Bluff and Pass the Parcel bring back so many happy memories. 7d

CatLass007 @Cuilin That sounds interesting. I have been at holiday parties with other adults when a game of “Chinese” Christmas party is played. Everyone brings a gift, maybe gag gifts or maybe the same type of gifts, say mugs. This doesn‘t work well with large groups because it takes a while. Everyone puts their anonymous gifts on a table or under a tree. Each person is assigned a number or maybe it just goes around the circle. The first person (cont)⬇️ 7d

CatLass007 chooses and opens a package. The next person has the option of taking the gift from the first person or choosing a wrapped gift. It‘s fun but occasionally can be frustrating. 7d

CatLass007 I guess the closest I‘ve ever come to playing blind-man‘s bluff is playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey. 7d

CBee @Cuilin that sounds like so much fun! I always loved musical chairs too. 7d

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwords
#weirdwordwednesday
@CBee

Came across this in A FATAL GRACE by Louise Penny. Definitely something we don't experience in Phoenix, AZ!

CBee Perfect! I‘m actually on #6 in the series! Still cold and icy 😂 3w

dabbe @CBee 🤩😂🤗 3w

CSeydel I once used this word in a history paper in high school. My teacher took points off because he didn‘t know what it meant. One of the worst teachers I have ever had (and not just because of that). 3w

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dabbe @CSeydel Translation from teacher: How dare you profess to know a word that I don't? You must have made it up or looked it up in the dictionary! #oy 🙄😂🤗 3w

Suet624 This qualifies as a descriptor of my current local weather. 3w

dabbe @Suet624 🩵❄️🩵 3w

CBee @CSeydel omg that‘s terrible! Shame on him 😡 3w

CSeydel @CBee He was truly horrible 3w

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TheSpineView

More Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean, Danny Shanahan

#WeirdWordWednesday @Cbee

Getting back into my weird word list. This one is another word I happened upon while reading. Love weird, wonderful and new to me words.

dabbe Same here. 🩶🩵🩶 3w

TheSpineView @dabbe 👍 3w

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Super_Jane

Murder at Holly House: A dazzling Christmas murder mystery from the bestselling author of the DCI Daley series | Denzil Meyrick

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4/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

“Note to self: don‘t get ill on a Thursday. The doctor will be plastered.”

#crime #mystery #english #christmas

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
@CBee

A little less morose than last week's word. Things must be looking up.

AmyG @dabbe Did you get Matt‘s book? 1mo

CBee Ooooo a good one. I thought about posting “fecund” today but for some reason thought I‘d already done that one at some point. Reading “Mythos” and Demeter is fecund in that she keeps things growing and fertile ♥️ 1mo

dabbe @CBee Another excellent one. Fun to pronounce and mispronounce, too! 😂 1mo

CBee @dabbe 😂😂😂 1mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I love color words! The bird is a flavescent bulbul, and the fish is a flavescent peacock (a type of cichlid). Apologies for not posting the past two weeks, friends! #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

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CatLass007 If I had seen this word before today, I would have thought it was a word that was a description of the way something tastes.😂 But now I know better. Good word!! Thanks for sharing. 1mo

TheSpineView Good one! ❤️ 1mo

TheBookHippie I love birds 🙂🙃 what a fun word! 1mo

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dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1mo

BookmarkTavern Yellow is my favorite color! 💛💛 1mo

psalva This is a fun one! I haven‘t posted in forever because ever since an iPhone update my phone app is not functioning the same, but hopefully i can resolve it if i get some free time to look into it soon. Thanks for the continued tags! I always look forward to #weirdwords! 1mo

CBee @CatLass007 ha! I definitely didn‘t expect it to mean a shade of yellow 😂 1mo

CBee @TheBookHippie isn‘t this little guy cute? So yellow and poofy. 1mo

CBee @BookmarkTavern it‘s such a happy color 💛 1mo

CBee @psalva oh no! I‘m sorry to hear that. Have you reached out to Litsy help? 1mo

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords @CBee

I've been feeling a lot like this lately, especially since 11/5.

CBee Same, girl, same 🤯 2mo

Suet624 Who knew there was such a word. 2mo

Amiable @CBee @dabbe I can‘t decide if my feelings of dislocation and disassociation are a good/protective thing for my psyche or if it means this election has permanently broken me. Maybe both. 2mo

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dabbe @CBee 💙❄️💙 2mo

dabbe @Suet624 IKR? 💙❄️💙 2mo

dabbe @Amiable God, that's EXACTLY how I feel, too! Let's hope it's the first one. 💙❄️💙 2mo

Suet624 @Amiable I‘m sure that it broke me. I am not the same person. 2mo

dabbe @Suet624 Deep down, I believe you're right. I can't even summon the wherewithal to even look forward to 2025. All I do is tremble. 2mo

Amiable @Suet624 I used to be a daily news consumer. I read WaPo, NYT, the Atlantic, local news sites, etc. Since 11/6, I can't do it. My eyes skip over anything that at a glance appears political in nature. My brain has disengaged. Where I would once get inspired or irritated into action, I now find myself shrugging and saying, “oh well. That's what they voted for. Not my concern.“ Even though it most definitely is going to be my/our problem(s). 2mo

Suet624 @Amiable I‘m doing the same thing. 2mo

Suet624 @dabbe it‘s just a dangerous clown show coming up. It‘s the ticking time bomb. I tremble too. 2mo

dabbe @Suet624 @Amiable Same here. Matt and I do our NYT puzzles in the morning and when we skim the news, ANYTHING that has “He who shall not be named“ on a headline, is avoided like the plague. And my faith in the majority of the people in the US has gone kaput--draining right down the proverbial swamp. 2mo

BkClubCare @Suet624 @dabbe Trembling here, too. {{{hugs}}} 2mo

dabbe @BkClubCare ❣️❣️❣️ 2mo

CBee @Amiable @Suet624 @dabbe right there with all of you 🙁 2mo

dabbe @CBee Hugs. We need an emoji hug without a smile face because sometimes, well, we need it. 2mo

CBee @dabbe I agree! This one is weird but is supposed to be a 🫂 2mo

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LiseWorks

The Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words | Paul Hellweg

You know how the days just run away from you in a week? Too busy baking for my markets. Well, I found 123 words in #WinterGames24 #WordSearch Total points of 1,230 #HolidayBookDragons @StayCurious

5feet.of.fury Same. I forgot about it until today & I had a lot of errands so I found as many as I could while my hair dye was processing 😂 2mo

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2mo

JenlovesJT47 I have a question. I hadn‘t been doing the word search yet but I went back last night through all of the books I read this month so far and did the word search. What would be the best way for me to post my points? I don‘t want to have to make a post for each book as it would take forever 😆 1mo

LiseWorks Lol make a list woth points and post it 1mo

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