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Rotes Sapiens (rs@redplanet.mars.org.cy) 2005/06/25 00:42

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:32:56 +0200, "Ela Wojtaszek"
<ela_wojtaszek@tlen.usun-to.pl> wrote:

>Would please tell me if the following sentence is acceptable (in lyrics -
>not written or spoken language)

>"[...] getting wet inside out [...]"

>meannig: getting wet completely, thoroughly. I'd like to avoid "getting wet
>from the inside out" - because it's too long and does not fit rythmically in
>the song.

I would say:

getting wet throughout.


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