“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
FRUITCAKE
fruitcake
(noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on
crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
(noun) a whimsically eccentric person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)
A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
(US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.
Source: Wiktionary
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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