Talk:few and far between

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic compositional

RFC discussion: September 2011–May 2017

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Keene (talkcontribs)'s definition "rare and scarce" is crappy. --Rockpilot 18:29, 24 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Why? 86.183.2.73 20:07, 19 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps because (deprecated template usage) rare and (deprecated template usage) scarce are synonyms in the applicable sense, whereas the expression implies something beyond mere rarity or scarcity, perhaps being "hard to find". DCDuring TALK 21:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)Reply


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Isn't this one easily understood compositionally from it's parts of speech? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:39, 28 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

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