When someone is "blowing smoke up your arse" today, it is a figure of speech that means that one person is complimenting another, insincerely most of the time, in order to inflate the ego of the individual being flattered. Back in the late 1700s, however, doctors literally blew smoke up people's rectums:
They age out from the system (not covered over 18 years of age), complying with fast changing labor law. And that's something you can sink your teeth into... Suffice to say it is alarming. Are you buying this fear mongering?
Переписка с ребенком по SMS. Сын заканчивает универ, последняя сессия, волнения, со/переживания итд кутерьма. Проявляю заботу и, как многоопытный родитель, даю ценные напутствия
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