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What does to have the palette of someone half one's age mean?
What does to have the palette of someone half one's age mean?
it was said in response to a person saying they hate eggplants. does it mean to have childish preferences? or smth like that
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Yes.
For example, children from ages 2-10 usually only like sweet foods, candy, ice cream, junk food like pizza, macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets.
They hate vegetables like broccoli, peas, carrots, green beans. squash, etc.
eggplant is a vegetable, so it fits the stereotype of kids not liking to eat vegetables.
palette = wrong
palate = correct
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- English (US)
It means that you have very childish tastes. This is an example of an idiom, because they are not really counting the years.
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It should be palate. A palette is used in art (a range of colors or the board used by artists to arrange colors).
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- English (US)
palate
In the past, people believed that the sense of taste was located in the roof of the mouth. Today we know that our sense of taste is far more complex and has to do with the taste buds on the tongue and in the nasal cavity, but that didn't stop the word palate from becoming synonymous with the word taste.
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Where the taste buds really are when we say the word "palate".
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