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Purcell’s faketotem, which the man, his plantagonist, up from the bog of the depths who was raging with the thirst of the sacred sponge and who, as a mashter of pasht, so far as him was concerned, was only standing there nonplush to the corner of Turbot
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Or say something in the spirit of es pasht nisht, a nice Yiddish phrase meaning “this does not become you,” which implies that the child’s stature and past good behavior places her above the negative behavior in question: “Chloe, this isn’t like you.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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Or say something in the spirit of es pasht nisht, a nice Yiddish phrase meaning “this does not become you,” which implies that the child’s stature and past good behavior places her above the negative behavior in question: “Chloe, this isn’t like you.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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