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Read the dictionary. Love the dictionary.

DateWednesday, May 18, 2011 at 12:33PM | AuthorTorea Jade

I have been misusing "akimbo," it seems, all my life. Because hands on hips was not the image that popped into my head. This was:

I guess that's more flailing, or arms raised in exaltation. Duly noted, Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, 1975 paperback edition.

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