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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

What does it mean breathed wrong?

If you so much as breathed
wrong, you got the belt.

Did you ever
breathe wrong?
  

Top answer

Hi, It's really not possible to breathe wrong. It's a hyperbolic way of speaking. The meaning is this.

— Clive

  • Hi, It's really not possible to breathe wrong.
  • It's a hyperbolic way of speaking.
  • The meaning is this.
  • Even if you did nothing wrong, you got beaten with a belt.
  • Clive
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Hi,

It's really not possible to breathe wrong.

It's a hyperbolic way of speaking. The meaning is this. Even if you did nothing wrong, you got beaten with a belt.

Clive
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