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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

My leg's gone...

After a long an exhausting walk a man falls down and says:
My leg! My leg's gone. He had a spasm?
  

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Hi He has lost all feeling in his leg - only one possibility!

  • Hi He has lost all feeling in his leg - only one possibility!
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Hi

He has lost all feeling in his leg - only one possibility!
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When we lose temporary sensation in a limb (leg, foot, finger), we say that it is "asleep". One of my teachers several years ago got up from her seat after quite a time of having one leg crossed over the other; her foot had "gone to sleep", and she fell and broke her ankle because of it.

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