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Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 03:32:46 JST Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr

One of the things I find fascinating about literature is that at some point a writer combined a few words together, and we all collectively decided we liked it, and now it's hard to separate those words. Here are two of my favorites:
Sheen of Sweat
Dappled Light
Please share your favorites too!

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  Zen Heathen 🇨🇦 (zenheathen@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 03:33:30 JST Zen Heathen 🇨🇦
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  @RickiTarr Pitter-patter of little feet
  Peal of thunder
  
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  ADHDean (adhdeanasl@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 03:33:37 JST ADHDean
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  @RickiTarr The rustling of leaves
  The pattering of rain
  The VROIP! VROP! of corduroy (okay, that last one may be mine)
  
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  GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 03:34:29 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
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  @RickiTarr Oh, I don’t even know what dappled light is
  
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  qurlyjoe (qurlyjoe@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:25:18 JST qurlyjoe
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  “That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.”
  
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  Abie (temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:25:23 JST Abie
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  @RickiTarr The liguistics term is collocation :)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collocation
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    Collocation
    
    In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up. This contrasts with an idiom, where the meaning of the whole cannot be inferred from its parts, and may be completely unrelated. There are about seven main types of collocations: adjective + noun, noun + noun (such as collective nouns), noun + verb, verb + noun, adverb + adjective, verbs + prepositional phrase (phrasal verbs), and verb + adverb. Collocation extraction is a computational technique that finds collocations in a document or corpus, using various computational linguistics elements resembling data mining. Expanded definition Collocations are partly or fully fixed expressions that become established through repeated context-dependent use. Such terms as crystal clear, middle management, nuclear family, and cosmetic surgery are examples of collocated pairs of words. Collocations can be in a syntactic relation...
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  Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups (technicaladept@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:25:40 JST Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups
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  @RickiTarr These ones are all attributed to Shakespeare
  A foregone conclusion
  As good luck would have it
  At one fell swoop
  Bated breath
  Be all and end all
  Good riddance
  Milk of human kindness
  
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  ThePfromtheO (thepfromtheo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:25:53 JST ThePfromtheO
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  Golden Hour
  Sibilant Whisper
  
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  Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯🇺🇦🇵🇸 (davew@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:25:56 JST Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯🇺🇦🇵🇸
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  @RickiTarr I’m not dead yet
  Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries
  She turned me into a newt. I got better.
  You wipers of other people’s bottoms.
  
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  xmanmonk (xmanmonk@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:26:09 JST xmanmonk
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  @RickiTarr Crepuscular rays.
  
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  okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin (okanogen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:26:11 JST okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
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  A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
  
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  Mike (sunumbral@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:26:18 JST Mike
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  Dusting of snow
  
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