“Mummy?”
“Yes, Michael.”
“I think my teacher has killed some people.”
“Why would you think that?”
“I heard another teacher tell her, ‘We know where all the bodies are buried.’.”
Mummy smiled, “That’s not what it means, Michael. It means the other teacher knew all about something that had happened not that your teacher really killed someone.”
“Oh?” Michael was still confused.
“It’s what’s called an idiom. An idiom doesn’t really mean what it says.”
The next day, “Miss Jones?”
“Yes, Michael?”
“I thought you had killed someone because a teacher said she knew about the bodies but mummy explained.”
“What did she say?”
“You’re an idiot, miss.”
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