Avessalom Podvodniy

His speech sounds like water in a lavatory pan, however it does not flush anything.

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Avessalom Podvodniy

Avessalom Podvodniy - (pseudonym) - Russian writer, poet, phylosopher, esoterician, psychologist and astrologer. www.english-slang.com

Avessalom Podvodniy

Offence is always a fact of your biography, not other's. www.english-slang.com

Avessalom Podvodniy

If a heart is silent, the memory would also fail. www.english-slang.com

flush it

[flush it] {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To fail (something). * /I really flushed it in my math course./ 2. {interj.}, {used imperatively} Expression registering refusal to believe something considered stupid […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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