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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.

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"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.

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It wasn’t when the idiom was coined. Have you seen hard-bound books from the 19th century in libraries?
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  didn’t most books look the same back then?

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