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#2 (permalink) Wed Oct 25, 2006 18:03 pm Expression: Do eyebrows |
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As far as I am aware, "doing my eyebrows" is not a fixed expression. In that sentence it means I am one of those people who wants to save the world but I am too busy doing trivial unimportant things.
"doing my eyebrows" could be replaced by any number of other things such as doing my hair, doing my nails, having my legs waxed, having a massage,etc. |
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Canadian45 I'm here quite often ;-)
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#3 (permalink) Wed Oct 25, 2006 21:02 pm Expression: Do eyebrows |
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Not fixed phrase? Hmm...
Perhaps, it was used in the direct sense, then.

Boy George, the author of the phrase, I quoted.
George Alan O'Dowd, born June 14, 1961, in Eltham, Kent, England, an English singer-songwriter…
(The picture is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George )
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Tamara I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#4 (permalink) Wed Oct 25, 2006 22:07 pm Expression: Do eyebrows |
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Hi Tamara
Yes, in Boy George's case, I imagine that the doing of eyebrows includes some careful plucking and coloring and God-only-knows-what-else. :lol:
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Yankee I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#5 (permalink) Wed Oct 25, 2006 22:20 pm Expression: Do eyebrows |
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:)
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Tamara I'm a Communicator ;-)

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