[Ads-l] New use of "slang"

[Jonathan Lighter]

To mean what exactly? "Punning interpretation?"

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http://aeqai.com/main/2018/10/leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace/ :
“War and Peace”, by Leo Tolstoy (which, in Russian slang, means “fat lion”).

JL

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