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Old 03-28-2013, 09:43 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
[...]The phrase "didn't know any better" is one that I might avoid, but I don't find it irritating a la carte. If, however, you'd used it this way, I doubt you'd have been interested in this discussion: "The streetwalker was just built that way. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, that bad girl didn't know any better."
Love it! A great example of how to turn something relatively harmless into something over the top. It's also a good example in relation to my other post. Various elements of those two sentences have entered the language as common expressions (that might not offend too badly in other contexts), and even put together like you have them you can see that the cliché expressed has (almost?) evolved into something that a writer might deliberately choose to give their writing a retrospective (or deliberately comic) feel.
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