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SMF

"Simple Machines Forums"

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pure and simple

[pure and simple] {adj.} Simply stated; basic. - Follows the noun it modifies and is used for emphasis. * /The problem, pure and simple, is finding a baby-sitter./ * /The […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

simple

[simple] See: [PURE AND SIMPLE]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

[DH] "Dear husband". Used by housewives posting on Internet forums. Internet slang

Howard Mumford Jones

(1892-1980) U.S. author Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. www.english-slang.com

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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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