[Ads-l] shocked = 'pleasantly surprised'
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 19 02:18:26 UTC 2016
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Meaning shocked has meant pleasantly surprised for decades.
i’m shocked, shocked!
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