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Old 11-29-2009, 09:18 PM
Eskimo Eskimo is offline
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Originally Posted by Fulcrum525 View Post
It is a descriptive phrase that's not meant to be taken literally, similar to one of the following-

"It's raining like cats and dogs."

"It's like the surface of the sun out there."
I don't think you really need to treat it as a special phrase. How about just suggesting that he look up the word, "sterling" in a dictionary?
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