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Mister Micawberbut if you stop to think about itI wouldn’t. I consider it a very natural way to express the parallelism or comparability between two qualities—that one is not notably disproportionate to the other.
Mister MicawberWell, I have certainly heard that, but if you stop to think about it, how can you compare them? They're apples and oranges. If I were doing it, I would think of another expression.I feel the same. Would this be more convincing: