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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP
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Subject: Re: words and their opposites
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 14:06:59 EDT
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> How about words like "flammable/inflammable", or the fact that "fat
> chance" and "slim chance" mean effectively the same thing?
> 
> Glenn Reid

"Slim chance" is literal, "fat chance" is ironic or sarcastic.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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