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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Idiom. Elide. It's really not that confusing. Idioms are about meaning, elision is about sound.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hm, I guess an encyclopedia article is more relevant than a dictionary definition, so sure. I was using the looser secondary definition... in this case an elision that references a dialect in order to call up regional relevance to the opinion expressed.