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Related: About this forum"Swatches of land"? says Donald talking about Syria. He don't know the word swaths, I think.
What a marooon!
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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
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SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)1. OMG, I missed that!
Swatches??
icymist
(15,888 posts)3. It stand for Swiss watches.
The Swiss will watch the land I do believe it means.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)4. Bigly swatches
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)6. Are swatches a brand of wrist watch?
BlueState
(642 posts)7. Caught the too.
Moron
Coventina
(27,172 posts)8. No, he's going to give them 80s vintage Swatches.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,201 posts)9. Swatches?
He's stuck in the eighties.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)10. I might be overly punctilious but that's what he said. Kind of like when people talk about cachets
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."')