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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
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What is the meaning of the 'carrot idiom' in the following sentence:
'More fat burning supplemements line the shelves than you can shake a carrot stick at.'
'More fat burning supplemements line the shelves than you can shake a carrot stick at.'
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Nothing. than you can shake a stick at '. 'Carrot' is added jocularly, presumably because the topic is health food stores or something similar.
- Nothing.
- than you can shake a stick at '.
- 'Carrot' is added jocularly, presumably because the topic is health food stores or something similar.
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Nothing. It is ad hoc word play on the idiom 'more...than you can shake a stick at'. 'Carrot' is added jocularly, presumably because the topic is health food stores or something similar.
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