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    From Snidely@snidely.too@gmail.com to alt.usage.english on Thu Sep 24 14:26:01 2026
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    Well, some people can.

    I can understand (mostly) "I'm having a butchers for my cousin."
    Context means that it's either "looking for" or "paying a visit". But
    I'm missing the elided part and what it's rhyming for.

    /dps
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  • From Snidely@snidely.too@gmail.com to alt.usage.english on Thu Sep 24 15:00:11 2026
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    Snidely presented the following explanation :
    Well, some people can.

    I can understand (mostly) "I'm having a butchers for my cousin." Context means that it's either "looking for" or "paying a visit". But I'm missing the elided part and what it's rhyming for.

    Maybe "hook"?


    /dps

    - ^^^
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  • From Tony Cooper@tonycooper214@gmail.com to alt.usage.english on Thu Sep 24 18:42:20 2026
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    On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:26:01 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Well, some people can.

    I can understand (mostly) "I'm having a butchers for my cousin."
    Context means that it's either "looking for" or "paying a visit". But
    I'm missing the elided part and what it's rhyming for.

    I read that as "I'm having look for my cousin". That might be a
    statement made to explain why you are going to view a flat that your
    cousin is thinking about renting. You are going to relay your opinion
    to your cousin.

    The rhyme is "butcher's hook" and "look".

    Very few Americans that are middle-aged or younger have ever been in
    butcher's shop or seen how raw beef is grabbed or hung by a butcher
    and seen a butcher's hook in use.

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