We have quite of lot of students from Hong Kong who need to have their English language skills brought to a more sophisticated level, and we are trying to help them understand some of the subtleties of our speech. The other day the phrase “tongue-in-cheek” came up, and I am now using your Winnie-the-Pooh article1 to illustrate this style of writing.
We think it quite brilliant.
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