Grading & Grubbing Testimony this Monday, May 19

[Kapohocat]

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Originally posted by aprild

I think that this old-fashioned idea that 'owning' a piece of property therefore gives one the 'right' to do whatever one wishes with it is a canard...

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I just like the fact that you used "canard"... ! it fits perfectly in your sentence! (I may not completely agree with the sentiment but thats a different post!)


Canard is French for duck, and is often used in English to refer to a deliberately false story, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French idiom, "vendre un canard à moitié," meaning "to half-sell a duck."