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Holly Waits

Men are like computers: I don't understand them, I just use them for my amusement.

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Holly Waits

Men are like computers. I don't understand them. I just use them for my amusement. www.english-slang.com

give to understand

[give to understand] {v. phr.}, {informal} 1. To make a person think that something is true but not tell him; suggest; hint. * /Mr. Johnson gave Billy to understand that […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

for fun

[for fun] {prep. phr.} As amusement, not seriously, as a joke. * /Let's try to play Beethoven's Emperor Concerto together, you on one piano, and I on another one./ Compare: […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

just for the fun of it

[just for the fun of it] {adv. phr.} Merely as a matter of amusement. * /"I'll bring a goat to class," Bob said to his classmates, "just for the fun […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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