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eppur_se_muova

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3. Bah, Humbug ! (Humbug meant a charade, a fraud, in Dickens' time)

Reply to PeaceWave (Original post)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 03:28 PM

Dec 12

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a
: something designed to deceive and mislead
Their claims are humbug.
b
: a willfully false, deceptive, or insincere person
He's just an old humbug.
denounced as humbugs the playwrights who magnify the difficulties of their craft—
Times Literary Supplement
2
: an attitude or spirit of pretense and deception
… in all his humbug, in all his malice and hollowness …—
Mary Lindsay
3
: nonsense, drivel
academic humbug
4
British : a hard usually peppermint-flavored candy

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humbug

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] PeaceWave Dec 12 OP

And the kids only get two pencils. Irish_Dem Dec 12 #1

Indirectly citizens pay for the ballroom bucolic_frolic Dec 12 #2

Bah, Humbug ! (Humbug meant a charade, a fraud, in Dickens' time) eppur_se_muova Dec 12 #3

That is enough square footage Mollyann Dec 12 #4