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Is it OK to say "I am not an easy morsel" to mean " I am not naive"?
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Omar Ahmed Is it OK to say "I am not an easy morsel" to mean " I am not naive"? Not normally. It would not be understood to mean that unless you were already in food analogy mode.
- Omar Ahmed Is it OK to say "I am not an easy morsel" to mean " I am not naive"?
- Not normally.
- It would not be understood to mean that unless you were already in food analogy mode.
- We do say that a person is a tough cookie, meaning something like "hard to overmaster".
- We say a person is hard-boiled if he is stoic, unsentimental and pragmatic.
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Omar AhmedIs it OK to say "I am not an easy morsel" to mean " I am not naive"?
Not normally. It would not be understood to mean that unless you were already in food analogy mode. We do say that a person is a tough cookie, meaning something like "hard to overmaster". We say a person is hard-boiled if he is stoic, unsentimental and pragmatic. A person can be
0Omar AhmedIs it OK to say "I am not an easy morsel" to mean " I am not naive"?
I've never heard it, but in the right context it could work. (It sounds like a translation from another language, but I'm not aware that it really is.)
Another way we express this is "I wasn't born yesterday".
CJ
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