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Originally Posted by jwb
It's grammar. You know what the person means. If you are actually confused by the statement then you are either a robot or someone who speaks English as a 2nd/3rd/etc language.
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Is it grammar though? It's idiom, which I don't think counts as grammar. And if it does, this is grammar with a basis in logical meaning. Most grammar is just random rules like conjugation of verbs that don't have much underlying logic (especially in English

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