“She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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