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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?
  

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

  • 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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