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Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase: a double-distilled idiot - English

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Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase:

a double-distilled idiot

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Some double-distilled idiots ill-treat their parents in old age.

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Chapter 2.3: A Shot in the Dark - Exercises [Page 64]

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Chapter 2.3 A Shot in the Dark
Exercises | Q 3. c) | Page 64

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