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Expression: 'tea leaves at the bottom of your cup'



 
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Expression: 'tea leaves at the bottom of your cup' Fri Jul 13, 2007 13:35 pm  Expression: 'tea leaves at the bottom of your cup'
 

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talking about tea leaves at the bottom of your cup

Hi

What does this mean? Is it some idiom?

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Expression: 'tea leaves at the bottom of your cup' Fri Jul 13, 2007 13:54 pm  Expression: 'tea leaves at the bottom of your cup'
 

Hi Tom,

No, that was me being facetious. Some people - so-called fortune tellers -claim to be able to read your future by looking at the tea leaves at the bottom of your tea cup

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