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Something Troubling You, Pal ??
Rebus
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.Rebus
when (chomp, chomp):me
what (chomp, chomp):u
where (chomp, chomp):him
what (chomp, chomp):u
where (chomp, chomp):him
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"what's eating you"Hide Answer Show Answer
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Just checking to see if any of our three recently accepted submittals (a RARE event, eh?) had any comments and ............ WHAM !!!
Just discovered that we ALL (BadBunnies) AND Eds. missed this one .........................
........ a "country mile" (hey, there's a Rebus freebie for ya) ... our gift ...
The colloquial/common/slang/idiom is NOT .....
"what's eating you" ....
..it's ....
"what's eating you?" .... OR ... "what's eating you"?
Depending on your 'forwardness" quotient of where-to-place-the-stop-mark*
*. or ? or ! (current 'hip' usage is to put it closest to the phrase it modifies which may NOT always be "inside the quote marks!" ... or .... um .... should that be s"!... ughhhhh !!!
(Just the BunnyBunch {Jaye & Jay} havin' fun with the Eds.)
Just discovered that we ALL (BadBunnies) AND Eds. missed this one .........................
........ a "country mile" (hey, there's a Rebus freebie for ya) ... our gift ...
The colloquial/common/slang/idiom is NOT .....
"what's eating you" ....
..it's ....
"what's eating you?" .... OR ... "what's eating you"?
Depending on your 'forwardness" quotient of where-to-place-the-stop-mark*
*. or ? or ! (current 'hip' usage is to put it closest to the phrase it modifies which may NOT always be "inside the quote marks!" ... or .... um .... should that be s"!... ughhhhh !!!
(Just the BunnyBunch {Jaye & Jay} havin' fun with the Eds.)
Lot's of superfluous info in this one. I'm not a huge fan of rebus (rebuses, rebi?) where I need to focus on a single line and ignore all the rest as counterexamples. Even thinking the answer was "what's eating you?" I had trouble getting the puzzle to depict it. I see it now, but it took effort.
These types of puzzle really go beyond what I think of as a rebus. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. I'm not going to preach about rebus purity or anything. I'm just less of a fan when they get too abstract.
I don't know the official grammatical rules, but I put the ? inside the quotes because it was part of the phrase I was referencing.
These types of puzzle really go beyond what I think of as a rebus. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. I'm not going to preach about rebus purity or anything. I'm just less of a fan when they get too abstract.
I don't know the official grammatical rules, but I put the ? inside the quotes because it was part of the phrase I was referencing.
I'm very confused by this rebus and the first comment
To bfftwer (whatever that means)
So you're confused. You and the Eds could join the same "we are confused club". I suggest you go to the net and do a little reading on WHERE one places the termination mark in a sentence (usually a period but sometimes a question mark or an exclamation point). The second sentence in this paragraph is an example of what we are talking about, here.
Should one put the period (.) BEFORE or FOLLOWING the quotation mark? Classical grammar rules say it should be BEFORE. This archaic rule was instituted by years-ago type-setters who feared 'losing' the tiny dot (.) twixt the setting of the type (originally done by hand) and delivery of the type-set page to the printing machine.
Nowadays type-setting is highly mechanized (and most of it is totally computerized) so the original cautionary rule no longer need be followed.
Also, putting the final (terminal) mark at the absolute end of the sentence reduces confusion about sentence meaning. How would you properly punctuate the following sentence?
The question he asked was, "Where do I put the quotation mark?"
This sentence is half-and-half. Half declarative and half inquiry (question).
Logic might say we should punctuate it thusly:
The question he asked was, "where do I put the quotation mark?".
But that's very awkward (attempting to enclose a quote mark with TWO terminal marks).
So, some writers are beginning to follow a 'new' rule:
Always place the terminal mark (period, question mark, exclamation mark) OUTSIDE any quotation mark - and do so even if the sentence contains a subordinate phrase that is a 'question' in nature.
Check it out.
LGM
So you're confused. You and the Eds could join the same "we are confused club". I suggest you go to the net and do a little reading on WHERE one places the termination mark in a sentence (usually a period but sometimes a question mark or an exclamation point). The second sentence in this paragraph is an example of what we are talking about, here.
Should one put the period (.) BEFORE or FOLLOWING the quotation mark? Classical grammar rules say it should be BEFORE. This archaic rule was instituted by years-ago type-setters who feared 'losing' the tiny dot (.) twixt the setting of the type (originally done by hand) and delivery of the type-set page to the printing machine.
Nowadays type-setting is highly mechanized (and most of it is totally computerized) so the original cautionary rule no longer need be followed.
Also, putting the final (terminal) mark at the absolute end of the sentence reduces confusion about sentence meaning. How would you properly punctuate the following sentence?
The question he asked was, "Where do I put the quotation mark?"
This sentence is half-and-half. Half declarative and half inquiry (question).
Logic might say we should punctuate it thusly:
The question he asked was, "where do I put the quotation mark?".
But that's very awkward (attempting to enclose a quote mark with TWO terminal marks).
So, some writers are beginning to follow a 'new' rule:
Always place the terminal mark (period, question mark, exclamation mark) OUTSIDE any quotation mark - and do so even if the sentence contains a subordinate phrase that is a 'question' in nature.
Check it out.
LGM
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