In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
APHYLLANTHACEAE
Aphyllanthaceae, family Aphyllanthaceae
(noun) one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Aphyllanthes
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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