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Chiachen Posted 14 years ago
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Is it a common usage: slow as balloons

Is it commonly used?
  

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Hi, No. In what way are balloons slow? I don't understand.

  • Hi, No.
  • In what way are balloons slow?
  • I don't understand.
  • Clive
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Hi,

No.

In what way are balloons slow? I don't understand.

Clive
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I probably misunderstood this: Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons.
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I have never heard the term as slow as balloons.
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Probably because no one says it. It was simply a term created by Joyce Carol Oatesy in Middle Age.

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