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"Swatches of land"? says Donald talking about Syria. He don't know the word swaths, I think. (Original Post) Akamai Oct 2016 OP
OMG, I missed that! SusanCalvin Oct 2016 #1
It stand for Swiss watches. icymist Oct 2016 #3
Bigly swatches tammywammy Oct 2016 #4
Are swatches a brand of wrist watch? Doctor Jack Oct 2016 #6
Caught the too. BlueState Oct 2016 #7
No, he's going to give them 80s vintage Swatches. Coventina Oct 2016 #8
Swatches? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2016 #9
I might be overly punctilious but that's what he said. Kind of like when people talk about cachets Akamai Oct 2016 #10
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10. I might be overly punctilious but that's what he said. Kind of like when people talk about cachets
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 11:02 PM
Oct 2016

of weapons when they mean caches. (From Google: 'Often the phrase "weapons cache" is used of a bunch of hidden guns or weapons that have been hidden or stored away, which is logical, given that the French verb cacher means "to hide."')

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