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Old 12-18-2009, 04:29 PM   #629
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Originally Posted by mores View Post
Could someone please explain?
He burst from the room, guns blazing!
"Make a note," he thought, "don't clean your guns with gasoline by closet candle-light..."
Well, English is my cradle tongue, and I read it four or five times before I got it. You see, 'guns blazing' is slang for 'shooting everything in sight' - and that's how I read it. Then I realised there is also the literal meaning..... which could be connected to the choice of cleaning fluid....
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