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28 May
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Does this sound natural?
“She doesn’t even harm a fly!”
(I want to mean to be too kind to kill a fly.)
Does this sound natural?
“She doesn’t even harm a fly!”
(I want to mean to be too kind to kill a fly.)
“She doesn’t even harm a fly!”
(I want to mean to be too kind to kill a fly.)
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- English (US)
She *wouldn’t* or *couldn’t* even hurt a fly.
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- English (US)
She *wouldn’t* or *couldn’t* even hurt a fly.
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
@bsloan7 Thank you! And I find pretty much a truth. You Americans don’t like using “harm” at all. No matter what sentence I make, you’ll change this word. 😂
- English (US)
@handsomeish Yeah, I think “hurt” is more common than “harm” lol
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