In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
KNEEDEEP
Knee"-deep`, a.
1. Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton.
2. Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. Where knee-deep the trees were standing. Longfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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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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